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On the Translation of Diplomatic Vague Language From the Perspective of Skopos Theory
XIE Xiang
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.08.003
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Ambiguity generally exists in the objective world, and language is a reflection of the objective world, so there are also a lot of ambiguities in language. Vague language has a unique pragmatic function. The clever use of vague language can make the expression more indirect, implicit, and flexible, leaving the speaker with plenty of room for maneuver, while also providing listeners with a variety of interpretation methods. Due to the special pragmatic function of vague words, vague words are used very frequently in diplomatic situations. How to translate these vague words is a problem that interpreters must face, and it is also a problem worthy of scholars. This article takes the skopos of translation as a guide, and uses government press conference interpretation as an example to explore the translation strategies of lexical vagueness in diplomatic interpretation. Through the observation and analysis of the interpreter corpus of the government press conference, it was found that the interpreters adopted different translation strategies such as amplification, literal translation, free translation, and word order adjustment.
Skopos Theory, diplomatic interpretation, vague language, translation strategies
US-China Foreign Language, August 2021, Vol. 19, No. 8, 217-222 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.08.003
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