Study on the E-C interpretation of the Government Work Report under the Guidance of Interpretive Theory

Abstract

With the deepening of globalization and advancement in China's international status, an increasing number of countries want to know more about China. During the exchanges with the rest of world, the government work report, as an important way of releasing information, is favored by domestic and foreign press. Thus, the writer thinks it's necessary to study the government work report and explore its interpreting strategies. This thesis firstly introduces the origin and development of the Interpretive Theory. In the meantime, it also makes a discussion about the interpretive level, subject and process. On the basis of the Interpretive Theory, this thesis makes a detailed introduction of features of the press conference interpreting from two aspects—language and content and analyzes the causes for interpreting difficulty. Finally, the author provides coping strategies against interpreting difficulty: information processing, interpretation, adjustment of the sentence structure, and literal translation.