Evaluation Of Faithfulness In Press Conference Interpretation For Political Figures From The Pespective Of Communication

Each year, with the opening of NPC and CPPCC, the role of interpreting is all the more important as journalists from all around the world come to those conferences held between. Interpretation is a special oral communication activity, aimed at making possible the communication between parties who speak different languages and share different cultural backgrounds. During the interpretation the interpreter actively communicates with the two ends of the communication line instead of acting as a passive receiver Thus, interpretation quality should be assessed by the effectiveness of communication in interpreting.This paper begins with a brief introduction of some basic concepts of interpretation namely its definition, classification, quality assessment researches and its communicative nature. Then based on the theoretical analyses, faithfulness in press conference interpretation is analyzed. Given that interpretation is to facilitate communication, adjustments are often necessary to make the message better understood by the audience. In some cases, some adjustments, which may appear to be inappropriate, are in fact made in accordance with the requirement of communicative faithfulness, faithfulness evaluated from the perspective of communication. Finally strategies are proposed in order to achieve faithful interpretation in light of effective communication.Methodologically speaking, this paper falls into the category of qualitative study based on data collection. Through the study, we have concluded that: interpretation is not simply a code-switch activity; instead it is a dynamic and communicative interaction. Thus any static assessment criterion will fail to successfully evaluate interpretation activity. A good interpretation should be one that bases its fidelity on appropriateness.