Translation of the "Neujahresansprache des Bundeskanzlers zum Jahreswechsel 2024/25" E-Book

Felix Konermann

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject Interpreting / Translating , grade: 1,3, University of Osnabrück (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Translation in Practice, language: English, abstract: This term paper presents a full English translation of the German Chancellor’s New Year’s Address for 2024/25, followed by a critical analysis of the translation choices. Drawing on Mona Baker’s In Other Words (2018), the paper discusses lexical equivalence, syntactic shifts, register adaptation, and rhetorical strategies. It shows how translation is not just linguistic substitution, but cultural and pragmatic mediation. This work demonstrates how idiomatic, emotionally resonant, and politically effective translations are achieved in practice—ideal for students of translation studies, linguistics, and political discourse.