新闻翻译讲义.ppt

新闻翻译 Contents 1.Basic knowledge about agency news translation 1.1A brief introduction to news agencies as translation agencies 1.2The importance of agency news translation 1.3The nature of news translation 1.4 News translation criteria 2. Basic knowledge about news writing 2.1Definition of news 2.2News text types 2.3Structure of news text 2.4Sentence construction of news report 2.5Word features of news report 2.6Language style and text style of news report 2.7Genres and materials of news report 3.Translation of news title 4.Word matching in news translation 5. Principles of word matching in news translation News agencies as translation agencies：a brief introduction News agencies specialized, since their creation in the middle of the 19th century, in the provision of international news, initially to domestic markets and later, through alliances with other news agencies worldwide, on a global scale. This implied dealing with a diversity of languages and with translation from the very start. It is not a coincidence that these organizations were created by cosmopolitan, mul-tilingual businessmen: Charles Havas, founder of Agence Havas, the predecessor of Agence France Presse, had lived and conducted business in Lisbon, while Paul Julius Reuter was a German who obtained his initial experience of news agency journalism in France before settling in Britain and founding Reuters in 1851. In fact, before it was transformed into the first news agency in 1835, Agence Havas was a translation agency known as Bureau Havas (1832–1835), which provided the French media and business community with translations from the international press. Bureau Havas centralized news translations leaving many freelancers out of work and is the first expression of the growing need for international news from around the world. In the first decades after their inception, news agencies already offered news services in different languages directed to the main Western news markets, and developed glo