ACADEMY OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION Faculty of Foreign Languages Articles about East Africa's second swarm of locusts on CNN.com, the guardian.Com on August 2020 (An Assignment on Translate Practice) By: La Chi Cuong – ETE 39 Supervisor: Assoc. Nguyen Thanh Huong HANOI, 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Aim of the study. Limitation of the study.
Method of the study. Design of the study. TYPICAL STRUCTURE OF AN ARTICLE ON THE GUARDIAN, BBC AND CBN. LEXICAL FEATURES OF SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT EAST AFRICA'S SECOND SWARM OF LOCUSTS ON THE GUARDIAN AND CBN, CNN.
Word formation in article articles about East Africa's second swarm of locusts 2020. Conversion or functional shift. Types of relationships between words in selected articles. Part/ whole relationships.
Polysemy and homonymy. Syntactical features of selected articles about East Africa's second swarm of locusts 2020 on theguardian, CBN, CNN. Typical sentence patterns of selected articles. Noun phrases in articles selected articles and Vietnamese equivalent.
Nominalization in selected articles and their Vietnamese equivalents. Terms and expressions about locust plague in Africa and their Vietnamese equivalents. TRANSLATION OF SELECTED ARTICLES. 93 ABBREVIATION Proper Noun N.
Common Noun + -ed N-ed2 Abbreviation of Noun N. Verb to infinitive V.inf Bare Infinitive V.bare Past Participle V.ed2 Present Participle -ing Adjective Adj. Rationale In the process of globalization, the frequent contact demands required global citizens to be able to deliver their message adequately, thus, the importance of language is put to the front. Language and culture are mutual support of each other.
The culture engaged in the message that people in one culture convey to others in another culture. One of the common representations of language and culture is literature or in journalism papers such as articles. Therefore to achieve the target, most of linguistic aspects and their implementation would finally be well mastered. This was due to the fact that each language has some differences and similarities dealing with linguistic aspects.
Then, later on the language competence of the learners would finally be getting better and better because they find it easier to learn the new language if there are similarities of linguistic aspects between the source language and the target language being learnt. Hence finally, a translator would find it easier also to translate a text if the the source text being translated had similarities of linguistic aspects with those of the target one. Aim of the study This study aims at describing the relationship between contrastive analysis and translation study between English and Vietnamese equivalent. The first sematic elemnt referred to the language study which is analyzed in accordance with the rule and structure of the language itself.
Meanwhile the second one is concerned with the relationship between the language and some other related factors, such as in analyzing the text. Limitation of the study Among various kinds of literary works, the researcher uses 20 English articles about second wave of locust swarms in East Africa 2020 on the guardian. The reason to choose material: CBN, CNN, The guardian that one of the world‟s leading online news sectors – in the form of successful global champions is CNN, CBN and the guardian. The research is based on the corpus of 2 newspapers drawn from online British newspaper BBC in mid – September, 2019 and in 2020.
Next are 12 online newspapers on the guardian and 4 feature-story forms CBN. Method of the study This study is based on the method of aggregating, analyzing available materials to conclude and to bring the most thorough understanding of Articles about second wave of locust swarms in East Africa 2020, bring new knowledge and hone existing knowledge to the researchers. Design of the study This study is designed as an academic study, aiming to understand News articles in English language; lexical, syntactical features of how to correctly use them, and analyzing example as well as exercises to further consolidate the knowledge of researchers. TYPICAL STRUCTURE OF AN ARTICLE ON THE GUARDIAN, CNN AND CBN 2.
Headlines Headlines are regarded as one of the most eye-catching aspects of newspaper stories, and they are frequently read first, along with graphics. Headlines are important elements that draw readers' attention immediately after they purchase a newspaper. Only eye-grabbing headlines can capture the reader's attention and persuade him or her to read. They are similar to tale leads, but with fewer words and in larger print.
Headlines have two main purposes; To grab the reader‟s attention To tell the reader what the story is about Almost articles‟s headlines The guardian and CNN.com are in form of brief sentences: “Locust crisis poses a danger to millions, forecasters warn” -The guardian.com- Headlines grab the reader‟s attention. ”Huge locust swarms raise fears of food shortages in South Sudan” -The guardian.com- “Locust swarms spread across Ethiopia aided by heavy rains and Covid pandemic” -CNN.World- „Make noise and don‟t panic‟: India tries to ward off locust invasion” -The guardian.com- 7 In general, the headline must tell the news. What they say is the single most urgent news point, accurately, intelligibly and impartially. Leads A lead paragraph (shortened lead) is the introductory paragraph of an article that outlines its key points.
The emphasis of article leads is on capturing the reader's attention. It provides readers with the most important information in a clear, succinct, and fascinating manner. Most conventional news leads feature quick answers to the 5WH questions "What, where, when, who, why, and how" the important event in the article occurred. Experienced reporters always ask these questions: The “who”, noun, can refer to a person, a group, a building, an institution, a concept -- anything about which a story can be written.
What is the action taking places. It is a verb that tells what the who is doing. Reporters should always use active voices and action verbs for the what because they make the wording direct and lively. When tells the time the action is happening.
It is an adverb or an adverb phrase. Where is the place the action is happening. Again, it is an adverb or adverb or adverb phrase. Why, another adverb, explains the action in the lead.
How usually describes the manner in which action occurs. The Leads in CNN , CBN and The guardian are the first sentences or the first paragraphs in the articles. For example, in the guardian news the leads is bolded UN warns of „alarming and unprecedented threat‟ to food security and livelihoods in the region 8 “Who” in the lead above? It‟s said UN is take action in warning “What” is the alarming and unpreceden threat? “What” is UN‟s warning? The lead said that food security and livelihoods in the region “Where”? – In the region/UN “Why?” Because It‟s threat to food security and livelihoods [Art.11] There are many ways to begin a feature story: The descriptive lead, the narrative, summary lead, the contrast/ comparison lead, the shocking statement lead, the suspense or teaser lead, the literary of historical allusion lead. Bodies The primary news piece is written from the bottom up.
In other words, the most relevant information is presented first, and each paragraph provides fewer and fewer details. In news story writing, putting the most important information first. The author begins with the six questions that have already been answered in the leads. The inverted pyramid is used commonly on 20 articles about East Africa's second swarm of locusts in 2020 on the guardian.
Inverted pyramid serves readers who want the high-lights right away. For those who want to know more, additional details follow later. Endings The closing paragraphs of the articles are crucial as lead paragraphs. The most important material is placed at the beginning of the story and the less important information follows, It is effective because it tells the reader quickly what they want to know, but can make the ending boring, with no suspens Ending or conclusion is the paragraph of the article.
The purpose of the ending is to sums up everything within the article. It might include a final quote, a descriptive 9 scene, a play on the title or lead, a summary statement, or some of the writer's personal opinions. Example of an ending: “The World Bank has said the insects could cost East Africa and Yemen $8.5 billion this year, and the FAO's Ethiopia representative Fatouma Seid fears the pattern of destruction will be repeated next year. "Infestation will continue into 2021.
We are being re-invaded and the swarms will then go to Kenya," she said. Conclusion After analyzing the typical structure of 20 articles about second wave of locust swarms in East Africa 2020 on the guardian and CBN, CNN. These articles both have four main sections: Headline, lead, body and ending. Beside these parts, articles include other illustrated parts such as: Photo for illustration, subtitle, caption, highlighted idea, etc.
LEXICAL FEATURES OF SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT EAST AFRICA'S SECOND SWARM OF LOCUSTS ON THE GUARDIAN AND CBN, CNN 3. Word formation in article articles about East Africa's second swarm of locusts 2020 3. Affixes As a bound morpheme that connects to bases, 'affix' although this appears to be a straightforward concept, there are at least two fundamental issues. First, it is not always clear if something is a bound morpheme or a free morpheme, and it is not always clear whether something is a root or an affix.
Suffixes A suffix is a group of letters placed after the root of a word. For example, the word flavorless consists of the root word “flavor” combined with the suffix “-less” (which means “without”) the word “flavorless” means “having no flavor.” Types of suffixes and How Word Words classes change -ish (N - Adj) Sluttish Extremely, especially, seriously, recently, -ly (N - Adj) likely, typically, effectively, frequently. Nonetheless, Unless, harmless”, sleep-less, less (N - Adj) expressionless,. Favourable, comparable, available, impassable, -able (N - Adj) vulnerable,… Previous, dangerous, populous, serious, -ous (N - V) analogous -ed (verb - Adj) Linked, allowed, expected, confirmed, warned,.
-y, ful (Adj - N) Hopeful, successfully, powerful, grateful,… -ment (V - N) Department, development, government, 11 supplement,. -er (N – N - Adj) Eaters, eaters, , banker, broker, owner,. -al, -ial (N – Adj) Officials, initial, material, torrential, crucial 3. Preffixes A prefix is a letter or a group of letters that attaches to the beginning of a word and helps to indicate or modify its meaning.
An easy example would be the word „prefix‟ itself! It begins with the prefix pre-, which means „before‟ Types of preffixes and meaning Words Defeated, describing, deprecating, defend, de- opposite deploys… dis- not, opposite of Distribution, displaced, disruption Impacted, Immature, imminent, in-/im- not impassable non- not nonetheless mis- wrongly mis-understand pre- before Predicting, prevent, prepared semi- half semiconscious 12 sub- under sub-category, subtitle un- not Unprecedented Interior, International, Intergovernmental, inter- between intervention,… 3. Compound in English A compound word is a union of two or more words which conveys a unit or special meaning which is not clearly or quickly conveyed by separate words. In English as well as in Vietnamese, there are many types of compounds whose formation doesn‟t have any common rules and whose meanings are quite different from the original meaning of individual words. Compound in Vietnamese Like English, Vietnamese compounds are words that consist of two or more words which have relationship of meaning and has different meaning from that of individual words.
There are three types of compounds in Vietnamese: Coordinate compounds (từ ghép đẳng lập) Subordinate compounds (từ ghép chính phụ) Isolated compounds (từ ghép độc lập). Compounds in the articles about second wave of locust swarms in East Africa in 2020 13 Types of Compound Meaning components (the way someone earns) the money people livelihoods Adj – N.