
- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Part I. Print media Unit 1 mass media: general notion
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •It’s wrong to portray fathers as domestic incompetents – but women still
- •Unit 2 newspaper headlines and their linguistic peculiarities
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 3 lexical features of newspaper articles
- •Names of some organisations, establishments, parties
- •Abbreviations
- •Acronyms
- •Neologisms
- •Colloquial words
- •Shortened words
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Former Mandela Fund Official Says Model Gave Him Diamonds
- •The International Herald Tribune, August 6, 2010
- •A. Too many clichés, at the end of the day
- •B. Social class affects white pupils’ exam results more than those of ethnic minorities – study
- •C. Blair’s job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism
- •In Downing Street, Blair never fulfilled his early promise and let Brown in.
- •Question time in Oldham Data profiling is helping Oldham police analyse the work of its community support officers
- •Airport and station get walk-in nhs centres
- •People's peers take back seat in the Lords
- •Not off to uni? What an excellent idea...
- •VIII Welsh Assembly launches £44m learning grants
- •4. Three men jailed for rape in Oxford after victim sees film on mobile.
- •Unit 4 grammatical and syntactical properties of newspaper articles
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Cronyism alert on plan for more people’s peers
- •Revealed: Queen’s dismay at Blair legacy
- •Victim / radiation / in £50m drugs / cancer / is denied
- •Unit 5 feature articles: essence, structure, lexical means, stylictic properties
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks Task 1. Read Article a and comment on its genre. What sphere of public life does it reflect? a. After 40 years, the terrorists turn to politics
- •In the East Belfast Mission hall, the uvf, uda and Red Hand Commando announced they had put weapons “beyond use”
- •С. A slice of Middle England Ruaridh Nicoll journeys in search of the perfect pork pie and finds himself seduced by the olde worlde charms of... Leicestershire
- •D. Gordon Brown: There is life after No 10
- •In his first major interview since losing the election, the former Prime Minister tells Christina Patterson why he’s thriving as a constituency mp – and happily living without the trappings of power
- •Unit 6 analytical genres of print media: editorial, op-ed, column, lte
- •I. Editorial
- •III. Сolumn
- •IV. Letters to the editor
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •How Not to Fight Colds
- •The New York Times, October 4, 2010
- •Clean and Open American Elections
- •It’s our class, not our colour, that screws us up
- •Task 12. Read the two ltEs below. What motive was behind writing those letters?
- •I. Giving an Edge to Children of Alumni
- •The New York Times, October 4, 2010
- •II. Childhood misery
- •Task 13. Read the two letters again, and observe the difference between them. What arguments does the author of first letter put forward to drive his message across?
- •Unit 7 print media: revision
- •Task 3. Read the article below and define its genre. What are the constituent parts of the text? House prices: Heading south
- •I was a terrible teenage drinker – I couldn't get hold of alcohol How do young people drink so much today? And how do they get served, asks Michael Deacon
- •Task 7. Read the article below and say what genre it is. Translate the italicised words and word combinations, analyse them. Twitter: Bad sports
- •Test 1. Print media
- •Variants 1-16.
- •Part II. Broadcast media Unit 8 learning to understand broadcast media texts
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 9 learning to differentiate broadcast media news and analytical genres
- •The press conference and the statement are an integral part of the live reporting and are not accompanied by the news presenter’s comments.
- •Fragments of the press-conference, the statement, as well as the parliamentary debate could be quoted in the video brief news, the report and the commentary that are part of the news bulletin.
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Audio Track 6
- •Audio Track 7
- •Bonfire of the quangos? It’s more like a barbecue: Despite all the fanfare, just 29 will be completely abolished
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •A shot in the arm – поиск наркотика; стимул (перен.) a soft touch – обходительный человек; pie in the sky – журавль в небе, пустые посулы
- •He wants the Scottish government to give a shot in the arm to the tourist industry (Sky News)
- •A flop – unsuccessful film or play gazumping – cheating a potential buyer of a house
- •Nifty – very good or attractive (nifty fifties – «золотой возраст»)
- •Some examples of former slang words to booze – to drink alcohol
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 12 stylistic and syntactical peculiarities of broadcast media discourse
- •Control Questions
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Hungarians battle to hold back toxic sludge spill from Danube
- •Vessel mishap
- •Test 2. Lexical and syntactical propertires of broadcast media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •In class:
- •Unit 13 grammatical properties of broadcast media discourse
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Uk’s official economic growth estimates revised down
- •Austerity won’t trigger double-dip recession, economists say
- •Ireland’s economic outlook worsens
- •Ireland’s economic outlook worsened on Monday as the country’s central bank
- •Unit 14 learning to work with broadcast media texts
- •Sun turns its back on Labour after 12 years of support
- •General election 2010: did it really happen?
- •The coalition government: Sweetening the pill
- •Test 3. Morphological properties of broadcast media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •Unit 15 regional accents of british broadcast media (scottish, welsh, irish)
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 16 broadcast media: revision
- •Murder rate at lowest for 20 years
- •Rogue Trader at Société Générale Gets Jail Term
- •The Guardian, October 5, 2010 Task 9. Find special terms in the second half of the material (they are not marked). Read the piece again, find clichés and idioms in it.
- •Task 38. Read the article below and say what crime is reflected in it. What are its underlying reasons?
- •Sham marriages on “unprecedented scale”
- •Final test on mass media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •In class:
- •References
- •Учимся понимать и интерпретировать медийные тексты на английском языке
МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ БЕЛАРУСЬ
Минский государственный лингвистический университет
C.A. Mогилевцев Т.П. Kaрпилович Г.И. Позюбановa
УЧИМСЯ ПОНИМАТЬ И ИНТЕРПРЕТИРОВАТЬ
МЕДИЙНЫЕ ТЕКСТЫ НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AND INTERPRET
MASS MEDIA TEXTS
Пособие для студентов учреждений, обеспечивающих получение высшего образования по специальности «Современные иностранные языки (перевод)»
Минск 2011
УДК 811.111’25 (0758)
ББК 81.432.1 – 77
М74
Р е к о м е н д о в а н о Редакционным советом Минского государственного лингвистического университета. Протокол № 2 (30) от 27.06.2011 г.
Р е ц е н з е н т ы : кандидат филологических наук О.Ф. Курилович (МГЛУ); кандидат филологических наук. доцент Т.В. Караичева (БГУ)
Могилевцев, С.А.
М74 Учимся понимать и интерпретировать медийные тексты на английском языке = Learning to Understand and Interpret Mass Media Texts: пособие для студентов учреждений, обеспечивающих получение высшего образования по специальности «Современные иностранные языки (перевод)» / С.А. Могилевцев, Т.П. Карпилович, Г.И. Позюбанова. – Минск : МГЛУ, 2011. – 159 с.
ISBN 978-985-460-456-5.
В пособии рассматриваются структурно-языковые и жанрово-стилистические особенности печатных и устных британских медиатекстов. С целью развития умений аудирования телевизионных и радиотекстов, формирования навыков содержательного и структурного анализа передаваемой в них информации, способов ее лингвистического выражения в пособии предусматривается работа со звучащими текстами. Отобранные для пособия материалы имеют лингвострановедческую направленность, что позволяет расширить и систематизировать знания, полученные студентами при изучении курсов страноведения и регионоведения.
Предназначено для студентов 3 курса английского отделения переводческого факультета МГЛУ. Может быть также использовано студентами других факультетов и вузов, изучающими английский язык на продвинутом этапе.
УДК 811.111’25
ББК 81.432.1–77
ISBN 978-985-460-456-5 © Могилевцев С.А., Карпилович Т.П., Позюбанова Г.И., 2011
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Preface ……………………..….…………..……………...……………… |
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Part I. Print Media ………………………….……………...…………… |
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Unit 1. Mass Media: General Notion ………….…………………..…………. |
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Unit 2. Newspaper Headlines and Their Linguistic Peculiarities …........……. |
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Unit 3. Lexical Features of Newspaper Articles ………………...………...…. |
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Unit 4. Grammatical and Syntactical Properties of Newspaper Articles ......… |
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Unit 5. Feature Articles: Essence, Structure, Lexical means, Stylistic properties ………………………………………...…………………………… |
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Unit 6. Analytical Genres of Print Media: Editorial, Op-ed, Column, LTE ………………………………………..…………………………………. |
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Unit 7. Print media: Revision ……..….………………………………………. |
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Test 1. Print Media ………………..………………………………………..… |
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Part II. Broadcast Media ….………………….……….………….……. |
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Unit 8. Learning to Understand Broadcast Media Texts .….……………….... |
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Unit 9. Learning to Differentiate Broadcast Media News and Analytical Genres …............................................................................................................ |
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Unit 10. An Outline of Broadcast Media Discourse ……….……..………… . |
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Unit 11. Lexical Properties of Broadcast Media Discourse …...……..……… |
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Unit 12. Stylistic and Syntactical Peculiarities of Broadcast Media Discourse ……………………………………………………………………... |
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Unit 13. Grammatical Properties of Broadcast Media Discourse ………..…... |
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Unit 14. Learning to Work with Broadcast Media Texts .....…………………. |
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Unit 15. Regional Accents of British Broadcast Media (Scottish, Welsh, Irish) …………………………………………..……………….…………….... Unit 16. Broadcast Media: Revision ………………………….……………… Final Test on Mass Media Discourse ……………………….……….………. References …..……….………….…………………..……………………
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Preface
LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AND INTERPRET MASS MEDIA TEXTS helps advanced students of English to master lexical units, grammatical structures and stylistic devices typical of British mediadiscourse and use them in understanding and interpreting newspaper, radio- and television texts.
The book was written to support the course “The Language of Mass Media” studied by third-year students of the School of Translation and Interpreting at Minsk State Linguistic University. The aim of the course is to develop communicative competence of students in understanding and interpreting English mediadiscourse with a special focus on its linguistic, sociocultural and discoursive components.
The book consists of two main parts, covering texts of print media (Part I) and broadcast media texts (Part II). Each part comprises 8 units in which the grammatical, lexical and some stylistic features of the major genres of mediatexts are discussed. Among these genres are a news article, a feature article, an editorial, an op-ed, an essay, etc. Special attention is paid to the linguistic features and means of translating headlines as they represent all the features of mediadiscourse. A separate unit is devoted to the characteristics of regional varieties of British press.
Each unit in the book includes a theoretical part, outlining the linguistic features of the media genre studied and a practical part comprising tasks on identifying the genre of the mediatext, its linguistic features, practising the use of lexical units and grammatical structures of media discourse and English-Russian translation of the phenomena considered. The practice part also offers oral and written communication activities on the basis of the studied material.
This book can be used in class or as a self-study.
It can be used by students of other language schools and universities.