C-E Interpreting Of Four-character Expressions In Press Conference From The Perspective Of The Interpretive Theory

With increasingly close contacts of the Chinese people in culture and economy with foreign countries, interpreting plays a crucial role in intercultural communication. Press conference interpreting, as a prominent bridge linking the government and the people, China and the outside world, has become more and more important and influential.On account of their concise wording, expressive meaning and melodious rhythm, four-character expressions are strongly favored by addressers. In a PCI, there are abundant four-character expressions used in parallels in order to heighten the effect and empower the expressions. Besides, four-character expressions with high information density and a wealth of Chinese culture, are often regarded as "interpreter killer".The Interpretive Theory stresses that the ultimate object of interpreting is to render the sense rather than linguistic covers of the source language, which can provide an ideal approach for the press conference interpreting. This thesis focuses on four-character expressions from the perspective of the Interpretive Theory combined with the materials of PCI in2011and2012. It firstly analyzes definitions and features of PC and four-character expressions respectively. Then it tries to discuss strategies in two categories:comprehension strategy and reformulation strategy. Comprehension strategy includes context analysis, analysis of speakers and interpreter’s improvement of verbal language. Reformulation strategy consists of compression, restructuring, word-for-word interpreting, generalization and explanatory interpreting.