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1、Translationofpoliticalspeeches-Askopos-theoreticalanalysisMasterThesis:Cand.ling.merc.Engelsk.–Translatør-ogTolkeprofilWrittenby:LasseHansen,274500Instructor:AnneGramSchjoldagerJune2010No.ofcharacters:155,696.Frontpagephotofrom:edupics.comSummaryThesubjectofthisthesisistr
2、anslationandpoliticaldiscourse.Inparticular,thisthesisexaminesthetranslationofaparticulartypeofpoliticaldiscourse,namelypoliticalspeeches.Byapplyingaskopos-theoreticalapproach,andidentifyingthemicro-andmacrostrategiesusedintranslationsofpoliticalspeeches,thethesisanswerst
3、hequestionofhowpoliticalspeechesaretranslated.Thefocusofthethesisistodeterminewhetherthereappearstobeageneralstrategicapproachtoreal-lifetranslationsofpoliticalspeeches.Furthermore,thethesisfocusesontranslationsofpoliticalspeechesthatweretranslatedfromAmericanEnglishintoD
4、anish.Also,thethesisfocusesontranslationofpoliticalspeeches,inwhichthespeakerwasanativeAmerican-Englishspeaker,andassuchcouldbeconsideredtobenativetotheAmericanculture.Thethesisusesapracticalskopos-theoreticalmodelofanalysisthatwasdevelopedbyAnneSchjoldager,andwhichhasbee
5、nusedintranslatortrainingprogrammersattheAarhusSchoolofBusiness.Themodelincludesadetailedtextualanalysisofthesourcetext,ananalysisofthetargettextandthecommunicativesituationofthetranslation,andananalysisofthemicro-andmacrostrategiesused.Furthermore,thethesisusesskopostheo
6、ryas1presentedbyAnneSchjoldagerandassuchdrawsuponhertaxonomiesofmacro-andmicrostrategies,aswellasherapproachtocategorizingtranslations.ThethesisusesacorpusofvarioustextsasdatacollectedviatheInternet,mostlythroughwebsitesofnewsnetworks.Thecorpustextsinclude:FourDanishtrans
7、lationsofAmerican-Englishpoliticalspeeches,fourAmerican-EnglishtranscriptsofthespeechesthatweretranslatedintoDanish,andthreetranscriptsand/orpreparedremarksofDanishpoliticalspeeches.TheDanishspeechesareusedinacomparativegenreanalysiswiththeAmericansourcetexts,forthepurpos
8、eofdeterminingthegenreconventionsinboththeAmericancultureandtheDanishculture.Thethesisfirstexami
