The Languages of the Media and Translation Approaches

15 Março 2017, 14:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of texts from the anthology dealing with the style and vocabulary used by the printed media. Explanation of how expressions such as "Gop Veep Pick Roils Dems" or "cops nab villains" are a sort of micro-language that is understood but hardly used by today's native users of the English language, making it a sort of code that is difficult to enter for foreign users of English.
Given that this is the case, how should we translate such items?