Bielsa, Esperança & Bassnett (2009) Translation in Global News, London: Routledge. Bivins, Thomas H. (2014) Public Relations Writing: The Essentials of Style and Format, 8th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill. Levi, Ragnar (2001) Medical Journalism: Exposing Fact, Fiction, Fraud, Ames: Iowa State University Press. McLoughlin, Linda (2000) The Language of Magazines, New York: Routledge Mencher, Melvin (2010) Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing, 12th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill. Missouri Group (2016) News Reporting and Writing, 12th edition, Boston: Bedford. Richardson, John E. (2007) Analysing Newspapers: An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Robinson, Douglas (2017) Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities, New York: Routledge. Torresi, Ira (2010) Translating Promotional and Advertising Manchester: St. Jerome. Supplementary Readings: Fairclough, Norman. (1995) Media Discourse. London; New York: Edward Arnold. Hutcheon, Linda and Siobhan O'Flynn (2013) A Theory of Adaptation, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge. Montgomery, Martin (2007) The Discourse of Broadcast News: A Linguistic Approach, London: Routledge. Morrish, John and Paul Bradshaw (2012) Magazine Editing: In Print and Online, 3rd edition, New York: Routledge. Rima Malkawi. (2012) The Ideological Stamp: Translation of Political Discourse in News Media. Patternson Lakes: Writescope Publishers. Christina & Susan Bassnett (2010) Political Discourse, Media and Translation, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. Warner, Helen (2014) Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture, London: Bloomsbury. Assessment Rubrics Individual written assignments will be given, involving translation from Chinese to English and vice versa. Students are required to work on a translation project in small groups and give a presentation on problems encountered and strategies used towards the end of the semester.
knowledge in the concepts of discourse and media translation. concepts of media discourse and media translation. Practical Skills An excellent skill to analyze and identify the basic problems and common solutions to media translation. Analyze and identify the basic problems and common solutions to media translation in good skills. Maintain adequate levels to analyze and identify the basic problems and common solutions to media translation. Marginal skill levels to analyze and identify the basic problems and common solutions to media translation. Excellently manipulate the terminology, idiom, and culture-bound language in the area of media translation. Good command of the terminology, idiom, and language in the area of media translation. Adequate command of the terminology, idiom, and language in the area of media translation. Marginal ability and skills to manipulate the terminology, idiom, and language in the area of media translation. Excellently formulate effective logical and rhetorical strategies for dealing with recurrent practical problems in various text types and media. Formulate effective logical and rhetorical strategies for dealing with recurrent practical problems in various text types and media in good skills. Acceptable skills to formulate logical and rhetorical strategies for dealing with recurrent practical problems in various text types and media. Marginal ability and skills to formulate logical and rhetorical strategies for dealing with recurrent practical problems in various text types and media. Professionalism Possess an excellent translating sense that is important and necessary for a professional media translator. Possess a good translating that is important and necessary for a professional media translator. Possess an adequate translating sense for a professional media translator Possess a marginal translating sense for a professional media translator.