Tactics In Coping With Vague Language In Diplomatic Interpreting By Cooperative Principle

Vague language used in the realm of foreign affairs is getting more and more frequent. One important reason is that the vague language can bring large benefits to both parties in diplomatic activities. In certain diplomatic occasions, vague language can not only improve the rationality of the diplomatic language communication, appropriateness and effectiveness; but also can give diplomatic activities participants much room to manoeuvre. Therefore, vague language is becoming more and more welcome in the activities of foreign affairs. But the vague language also has some special characteristics, for example tactfulness, vagueness and other characteristics, which brings great difficulties to interpreting vague language accurately.Cooperative principles are the ones that people in daily communication activities often encounter. Although the participants in the talks may not be aware that their conversation is carried out under the guidance of the principles of cooperation, the cooperative principles, indeed, plays a significant role in their talks. As a result, the cooperative principles in interpreting activities also have corresponding effects. So, this paper will stand in the perspective of cooperative principles, explore and analyze the strategy that the interpreter will use to interpret the vague language. The author combined with the specific strategies of interpreting, found that the interpreters in interpreting activities are not blindly obey the cooperative principle, but will show different characteristics with different translation strategies that they adopt. In particular, when the interpreters use the equivalent translation, they will use the same strategy with the source sentence which both violate the cooperative principles; and when the interpreters use retranslation method, they will use the contrary translation method which obey the cooperative principle of expression.Combined with the instance, the author tries to explore some laws with detailed description and analysis, and summarizes some translation rules and skills, and also hopes that can bring some help to the interpreters when they translate vague language, and make contributions to improve foreign interpretation skills.