Strategies For Chinese Idioms Interpretation In Conferences Under Interpretative Theory

With the development of globalization and informationalization, interpretation has become an indispensable method in cross-cultural communication, and it is now qualified as a profession. Interpretation plays an pivotal role in those increasingly frequent international conferences. In recent years, the press conferences held by governments have become a link between governments and media. However, there is no systematic and thorough study on conference interpretation. On those special occasions, speakers from Chinese governments are highly likely to address their intensions by utilizing Chinese idioms; additionally, interpreters generally do not have standardized criteria to deal with those idioms, hence we are not surprised to see that there are several cases which interpreters came up with obscure translations. This thesis is going to discuss idiom-interpreting strategies by utilizing idiom translation from Chinese press conferences under the guidance of the Interpretative Theory. The thesis deems that, in practical situations, interpreters are confined by many factors which block them from working out efficacious translations, such as their experience, knowledge, linguistic abilities, personalities and external environment.Guided by the Interpretative Theory, the thesis comes up with six idiom-interpreting strategies, namely sentence transformation, culture interpreting, information explanation, information supplement, the same-functioned English idiom usage and information omission. These strategies may be able to guide the interpreters in the practical interpreting occasions and provide them with standardized criteria for the sake of achieving better version in idiom interpreting.