Research On Faithfulness In Press Conference Interpreting

Along with the deepening of reform and opening up, the relationship between China and the world are more and more frequent. This does not only raise higher demand for interpreters, but also provides a new research field for interpreting studies.The subject of this paper is official press conference. Then, the paper based on the interpretive theory, is to discuss and explore what "faithfulness" is, what criteria of "faithfulness" are and what methods the interpreters use in order to be faithful to the speaker at the press conferences interpretation. The concept of "faithfulness" advocated by the interpretive theory is a tolerant and dynamic one. It consists of three aspects:the author’s intention, the target language and the target readers. The interpretation is to facilitate communication, adjustments are often necessary to make the message better understood by the audience. In the interpreting process, the interpreter often adopts such methods as integrating the main points, restructuring the sentences, semantic explanation and so on to achieve fidelity to the speaker.Through the research, the author finds that:faithfulness as the most important criteria of the interpreting quality evaluation is not universally applicable. Under some certain circumstances, some so-called unfaithfulness is actually faithful. It does not violate the principle of faithfulness based on the interpretive theory. On the contrary, the flexible interpretation not only clearly expresses the sense of the originator, carries out the intention of the interpreting activity but also achieves an even more effective communication result.