Translation practice about ukraine crisis reuters and cnn 2014

CONTENT INTRODUCTION .1 1.1 Reasons to choose the topic 1.2 The structure of articles on Reuters and CNN .4 1.2.1 The similarities in structure of articles on Reuters and CNN 1.2.1.1 Headlines 1.2.1.2 Leads 1.2.1.3 Bodies 1.2.1.4 Endings 10 1.2.2 The differences in structure of articles on Reuters and CNN .11 1.2.2.1 Video for illustration and more information 11 1.2.2.2 Story highlights 12 1.2.2.3 Leads 14 LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ARTICLES ABOUT UKRAINE CRISIS ON REUTERS AND CNN 20 2.1 Syntactical features of articles about Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 20 2.1.1 Headlines in articles about Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 20 2.1.1.1 Structure of headlines .20 2.1.1.2 Omission 22 2.1.1.3 Headline interpreting 23 2.1.2 Story highlights in articles about Ukraine Crisis on CNN 28 2.1.2.1 Story highlight’s functions .29 2.1.2.2 Story highlight’s contents 30 2.1.3 Leads in articles about Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 30 2.1.3.1 Summary leads 30 2.1.3.2 Direct leads 31 2.1.3.3 Delayed leads 31 2.1.3.4.Contrast leads 32 2.1.3.5.Narrative leads 32 2.1.4 Endings in articles about Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 33 2.1.4.1 Summary endings or the lead replay .33 2.1.4.2 Proximity ending 35 2.1.4.3 Quote ending 36 2.1.4.4 Surprise ending .36 2.2 Common lexical features of articles about Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN .37 2.2.1 Common vocabulary 37 2.2.1.1 Vocabulary of Headlines 37 2.2.1.2 Vocabulary of Leads 38 2.2.1.3 Vocabulary of Bodies 39 2.2.1.4 Vocabulary of Endings 40 2.2.2 Compound words .41 2.2.2.1 Compound Adjective 41 2.2.2.2 Compound Nouns 48 2.3 Relations between parts of an article: 55 2.3.1 Relations between the four main parts of an article 55 EXPRESSION USED IN ARTICLES ABOUT UKRAINE CRISIS ON REUTERS AND CNN 57 3.1 Noun Phrases 57 3.2 Verb Phrases 61 3.3 politic Terms and Common Abbreviations of Agencies 63 3.4 Some outstanding images about Ukraine Crisis 68 CONCLUSION 69 REFERENCES 70 TRANSLATION 73 COMBINATION .97 APPENDIX 101 Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 INTRODUCTION 2014 is marked by many noteworthy events that have great impact on the people around the world: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board; A referendum on the status of Crimea is held; An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a school in Nigeria; Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing more than 290 people, mostly high school students; The Royal Thai Army overthrows the caretaker government of Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan after a failure to resolve the political unrest in Thailand; Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777) crashes in Ukraine, after being shot down by a missile 298 people die; Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali, killing all 116 people on board; The United States military begins an air campaign in northern Iraq to stem the influx of ISIS militants… those events make 2012 the year to remember with both good and bad memories Among those noted events, the news of Ukraine Crisis is the most memorable one Ukraine Crisis is considered as the War in Ukraine or War in Eastern Ukraine, which is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine From the beginning of March 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and antigovernment groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, together commonly called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government Prior to a change of the top leadership in August, the separatists were largely led by Russian citizens Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 Russian paramilitaries are reported to make up from 15% to 80% of the combatants On the other hand, talking about this, referring to relationship between Russia and Ukraine is a good point Ukraine is not Russia Tensions between the two have existed for centuries Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union at the end of that country’s civil war At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became an independent state Crimea is an almost island in the Black Sea off the coast of Southeastern Ukraine It has been extremely important to Russia since it contains the only year-round access to the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean Russia has gone to war more than once to protect her interests in the Crimea In 1954, for its own reasons, The Soviet Union made the Crimea a part of Ukraine Hence, when Ukraine became independent, Russia’s great naval base at Sebastopol, Crimea was in an area controlled by a foreign country, Ukraine This was acceptable to Russia as long as Ukraine remained a friend of Russia In late 2013, the Ukrainian government, after some tense times with their Russian neighbor, began to signal its intent to align closer with the European Union and the West This was not okay with Vladimir Putin who persuaded the then Ukrainian President, Victor Yanukovych, to reject the trend toward the West in return for favors from Russia At this point, V Putin looks like a wily diplomat but he had underestimated the intensity of anti-Yanukovych and anti-Russian feelings in Western Ukraine To Putin’s consternation, violent protests appeared in Ukraine’s Capital, Kiev, in the first part of 2014 leading to the expulsion of Yanukovych and the establishment of an interim Ukrainian government Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 This had to be an extreme embarrassment to Putin whose diplomatic interventions in Ukraine had resulted in an anti-Russian coup d’état Putin did not react at the time because he was trying to bring off a successful Winter Olympics that was showing all the earmarks of turning into a debacle When the Olympic Games were completed without too many slip-ups, Putin was free to move He could have tried diplomatic back channels to see what accommodation he could come to with Ukraine and the West but Putin is more Cossack than diplomat Russian troops staged a bloodless invasion of the Crimea that evidenced serious diplomatic and military skill In his own circles, Putin now appears as a bare-chested defender of the Motherland It is important to understand that he will never voluntarily surrender the Crimea The West must accept that as a fact The West’s response has so far borne Putin’s real situation in mind Short of real military defeat, Putin is staying in the Crimea This is no real problem to the West since Russia has controlled the Crimea for decades The Western response has been as it should be: an enduring diplomatic scowl, some non-specific sabre rattling and appropriate non-violent sanctions 1.1 Reasons to choose the topic There are two main reasons why the author chose this topic: Firstly, Ukraine Crisis is one of the most tragic events of this year killing millions of people and sparking the fear of people around the world or much political commentary in many countries Especially, Ukraine Crisis affects strongly the economy of Europe as well as poor relationship between Russia and America So the author can get a lot of news related to the topic to study not only linguistic study (newspaper style) but also social study Secondly, that is also one of the events that reporter are spending much their concern by talking and writing about it on papers Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 Thirdly, this kind of news structure is not very difficult to study so analyzing it will become easier and the author can more deeply understand about English Newspaper Style Besides, the author chooses Reuters and CNN website to set off her study is because they are two American big reliable news sources All their news is always quickly updated and has high accuracy In addition, since they are two websites for various kinds of readers so the English writing they use is Standard English which is brief, natural and easy to understand Furthermore, comparing between Reuters and CNN writing style is a very effective way to learn about English Newspaper Style The aim of the author after this assignment is that, the author can clearly understand the Newspaper Style of Reuters and CNN in particular and of English Newspaper Style in general From that, the author can only get information from the English articles to translate it into Vietnamese in the most accurate way but also archive experience in writing English articles to write her own ones It is very exciting to big assignment in English The author wants to say ‘thank’ to the teacher for her help in doing this assignment and hope that it will satisfy the teacher’s demands though there are surely unavoidable mistakes On the one hand, the author realizes that the author really has the honor of doing such a big assignment That brings to the author a huge chance to approach with English language in general and English Newspaper Style in particular One again, the author would like to say “thank lecturer for this” 1.2 The structure of articles on Reuters and CNN 1.2.1 The similarities in structure of articles on Reuters and CNN Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 As you can see from the photo captured, the structure of articles on Reuters and CNN has some similarities with general Internet Newspaper Firstly, their articles consist of four parts: headline, lead, body, and ending Secondly, they both have the other supporting parts Reuters such as: photo for illustration and caption below it, highlighted idea, subtitle and so on These supporting parts are not compulsory Their appearances depend on the reporter’s aim and their effect towards the article they serve 1.2.1.1 Headlines In fact, readers can quickly get the gist of an article without CNN reading the whole piece because They see headlines Plus, “ the headline is the text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it” [5.2 (1) Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 Headlines, by the way, come in a number of varieties The tabloids like to use big bold headlines with jazzy words, designed to encourage people to buy the traditional newspaper newspapers More use smaller headlines.  Headline is generally written by a copy editor, but many also be written by the writer, the page layout designer, or other editors in bold and much larger size than other parts of an article There are two purposes of a headline: To grab the reader’s attention To tell the reader what is the story is about [5.1 (2) p.44] Headlines are a vital part of a newspaper because it decides whether the readers will continue to read the article or not If readers come across a dull or confusing headline, they will very likely skip the story Accordingly, it is so important to write worth headlines To sum up, both Reuters and CNN’s headlines are used to say most urgent news point, in other words, they briefly say the content of the articles in the most attractive way They are essential successful factor of the articles Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 E.g Russia defiant in face of new U.S sanctions over Ukraine [CNN, A4] The key/urgent points  Grab reader’s attention of the news  Tell the content of the story British PM Cameron warns of energy, trade sanctions against Russia [Reuters, A2] 1.2.1.2 Leads “The lead sets the stone for the feature story” [5.1,(2), p53] The most important structural element of a story is the lead or introduction (in the UK) and the story's first, or leading, sentence The lead is usually the first sentence, or in some cases the first two sentences, and is ideally 20-25 words in length In fact, the lead’s size will make writing a lead an optimization problem, in which the goal is to articulate the most encompassing and interesting statement that a writer can make in one sentence, given the material with which he or she has to work While a rule of thumb says the lead should answer most or all of the five Ws, few leads can fit all of these Charnley states that "an effective lead is a 'brief, sharp statement of the story's essential facts’’ [5.2,(1)] Frankly with so many sources of information- newspapers, magazines, TV, ….and so on, audiences simply are not willing to read beyond the first paragraph Ukraine Crisis on Reuters and CNN 2014 of a story unless it grabs their interest A good lead does just that It gives readers the most important information in a clear and interesting manner And especially, it is regarded as direction of an article E.g (CNN) A top European Union official said Saturday that new sanctions will be proposed within a week against Russia over its actions in Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sounded like he can't wait that long [CNN, A1] (Reuters) - Australia on Monday unveiled fresh sanctions against Russia over what Prime Minister Tony Abbott called its "bullying" of neighbouring Ukraine, where the Kremlin is accused of backing pro-Russian insurgent groups battling the government in Kiev [Reuters, A4]  There are many types of leads to begin an article such as: the descriptive lead, the narrative lead, summary lead, the contrast or comparison lead, the shocking statement lead, ect The example above from CNN and Reuters are a summary lead It tells the reader what the article is about, more detail than headline (Australia unveils fresh sanctions against Russia over Ukraine) [Reuters, A4]  All the articles are from Reuters and CNN about Ukraine Crisis that the author studies have leads 1.2.1.3 Bodies The body of an article on Reuters and CNN has close relation to its other parts Journalists use facts and supporting information in a logical sequence, adding quotation to build stories Eg: