The Application Of Communicative Translation Principle In Consecutive Interpreting Of Environmental Protection Speeches

Peter Newmark puts forward semantic translation principle and communicative translation principle and holds that these two translation principles can be applied to translating different types of texts.Communicative translation principle serves as guidance to the translation of informative and vocative texts,while semantic translation principle serves as that of expressive texts.Worldwide Food Wasting Scandal and Saving the Ocean Starts with Saving the Island are two environmental protection speeches chosen from TED website,which share both informative and vocative textual characteristics,so communicative translation principle can be applied to guiding the interpreting practices.Under the guidance of communicative translation principle,the author of the thesis finds out some problems and weaknesses in the initial interpretation of the two TED texts and therefore puts forward adaptation strategies conforming to text typology and text characteristics.Practices prove that under the guidance of communicative translation principle,strategies such as explaining,adding,omitting,conversing,restructuring and so on can be used to achieve better interpretation versions that can smoothly deliver the speaker's information and emotion.So it may be justifiable that communicative translation principle can be guidance to the interpreting of environmental protection speeches and improve the quality of interpreting practices to realize a better communicative effect.