Interpretation Of Vague Expression In Political Context Under The Guidance Of Skopostheorie

This thesis tries to explore the interpreting strategies of vague expressions in political context under the guidance of Skopostheorie. For a long time, whether the TT is equivalent in meaning to ST is regarded as the criteria of"good"translation. As a result, a wide range of heated debates on translation criteria have been triggered, for example,"faithfulness, expressiveness, elegance,"and"spiritual resemblance and sublimation"and so on. Those criterions, to some degree, have enriched the people's understanding of translation.However, in real practice, an interpreter will find it impossible to be always faithful to the speaker in a political context in which there appear so many vague expressions for various reasons. So the so-called equivalence can no longer be valid for there may be many understandings of the vague expressions. Thus the criteria of a good interpretation should be whether the interpreted version has achieved the purpose that the interpreted version is intended to achieve. In this sense, the author, in this thesis, attempts to discuss how to select interpretation strategies according to the purpose of the communication under the guidance of Skopostheorie.The thesis attempts to explore the appropriate interpreting strategies to make the Skopos of the communication achieved in order to prove that the Skopostheorie is proper and effective in guiding the interpreters to choose appropriate strategies to interpret vague expressions in diplomatic context. Relevant studies in the past mainly focused on the application of Skopostheorie to translation of trade mark or vague expression under the guidance of reception theory and relevance theory but failed to pay due attention to the interpretation of vague expressions. Moreover, traditional studies of interpretation of vague expression are mainly conducted from the perspective of linguistics, making the real purpose of the speaker unclearly conveyed. So the thesis attempts to expound the choice of different interpretation strategies in light of Skopostheorie.