The Teleological Perspective Press Conference In British Politics Discourse Alternate Interpretation

With China's implementation of Reform and Opening up policy as well as the integrative development of politics and economy in the world, China has played a more and more important role and impacted a more and more strong influence on the world stage. The international community has paid special attention to the significant achievements and relevant policies made by China in the fields like politics, economy, culture, science and technology. The C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference is always related to the development in the politics of China. It has served as one of the major channels to know China's national condition and basic policy and strategy for international community. Therefore, the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference plays a decisive role in communications between China and the world.This thesis, with the theoretical foundation of the Skopostheorie, the core theory of German Functionalist in the seventies of 20th Century, and the discourse C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs at press conference as the text, systematically discusses the relationship with the Skopostheorie and C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference. The consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference should be viewed as a kind of inter-cultural communicative activity which has specific purpose to achieve due to its political characteristics and communicative characteristics. As the Skopostheorie demonstrates that the translation is a purposeful activity, the interpreter should do selective translation or interpretation from source text or discourse in accordance with the translation brief, translation purpose and the target language audience. Studying on the basis of C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs at press conference, the thesis attempts to prove the feasibility and guidance of Skopotheorie with explanatory research method.The purpose for the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference is to provide theme-related information for the target-text receivers, that is, the foreigners who participate in the activities so as to let them understand relevant policy, including the internal and external policy of both the central government and local governments, and at the same time, introduce the Chinese culture to the foreigners. The C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference emphasizes that the foreign participants should know a real and objective China. This thesis firstly presents the characteristics and process of conference consecutive interpretation, as well as the characteristics and function of current affairs discourse. Then it introduces the two representatives of the Skopostheorie, Vermeer and Nord, as well as their representative translation theory. Followed the above, the thesis discusses in detail the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference from the perspective of the Skopostheorie, including translation skopos, translation brief, translation type, the intended function of target text, Principle of Loyalty and the major enlightenment concluded from the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference from the perspective of Skopostheorie.The conclusion of the thesis is as follows:the Skopostheorie has a strong guidance for the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse. The author provides some humble opinions about the C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference and hopes that this thesis could lead to some inspirations to the practice of C-E consecutive interpretation for current political affairs discourse at press conference. Meanwhile, limitations are also presented. The author hopes that the thesis could provide some help to level up the quality of the C-E consecutive interpretation for current affairs so as to make the foreigners know a real China and eventually promote the communication between China and the world.