Seminar 5 Translation of Newspaper Articles/Headlines

Aim: to teach students to translate texts belonging to newspaper style: newspaper informative articles, newspaper headlines.

Questions for discussion:

• What newspaper style is, its language: newspaper clichés, fixed expressions, political terms, etc;

• Differences in newspaper style in Russian and English;

• Difficulties in translation of newspaper headlines;

• Useful techniques to translate newspaper articles and their headlines.

• To translate a newspaper article (written form)

Literature:

1. Lecture 8 - Economic Translation;

2. И.Р. Гальперин Стилистика текста, М., 1990;

3. Федоров А.Т. Основы общей теории перевода, 2005;

4. Title Translation, Kuchumova G., Вестник КазГЮУ, Астана, 2012г.

Task – translate the article below:

The Year Government Cuts Changed the Face of the Welfare State

From the dramatic rise of food banks to the drastic withdrawal of benefits, our writers assess how the coalition's austerity measures have left millions of households across Britain struggling to survive

(The Guardian, Wednesday 18 December 2013)

Patrick Butler: Retreat of the welfare state

A new wave of poverty crashed over the voluntary sector. Food banks, almost entirely dependent on volunteers and donated food, grew rapidly to try to take the strain caused by low wages, rising living costs, and benefit cuts and delays. Demand surged after April, when welfare changes started to take substantial chunks from the incomes of the poorest, many of them ill and disabled.

Breakfast clubs, clothes banks, and even "baby banks" also sprang up as in-kind support began to replace dwindling welfare cash entitlements.

Poverty charities organized ever-bigger national food drives with large supermarkets for food banks to give out. This was a charitable food effort not seen since the Second World War. Police reported a rise in shoplifting of groceries, often by mothers desperate to prevent their children from going hungry. Doctors declared that food poverty was now a "public health emergency".

The Department for Work and Pensions refused to admit there was any evidence of a link between welfare reform and food bank use.

Charities told tales of injustice, fear and humiliation endured by the most vulnerable, as a result of increased benefit sanctions, the tax and the Atos-run fit-for-work tests. The "heat or eat" dilemma slipped into the public consciousness. The church rediscovered its campaigning heart on debt and payday lending.

Corrosive cuts to charities and community groups continued. There were veiled political threats to campaigning charities through the lobbying bill. The big society may not be dead, argued a recent audit, but it was healthiest as a form of reactive crisis voluntarism. The outlook was far less rosy for small charities reliant on state funding to supply specialist welfare services in deprived areas; they, the audit concluded, were "left out in the cold", their future increasingly bleak.