Syria's Assad warns of 'earthquake' if West intervenes

By Jim Muir

Oct 30, 2011

 Source: www.bbc.co.uk/

1 In a rare interview with the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Mr Assad said 

2 involvement risked transforming Syria into "another Afghanistan". The UN has renewed 3 its call for the repression to end, and China has warned Syria the situation cannot 

4 continue. More than 50 civilians and members of the security forces were killed on 

5 Saturday, according to the two sides. Activists said 21 civilians were killed and that 

6 army tanks had shelled a historic district in the city of Homs.

Translation of the Headline:

"El Presidente de Siria, Assad advierte que habrá un “terremoto” en el país si Occidente interviene en crisis."

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yrjXhWFhPk

Translation Techniques:

1.-Addition: (El) (Presidente de) Siria, Assad advierte (que) (habrá) (un) “terremoto” (en) (el) (país) si Occidente interviene (en) (la) (crisis). (Addition of many words in the translation).

2.-Omission: Syria's Assad warns (OF) 'earthquake' if West intervenes. (The word “OF” is omitted).

About the paragraph:

Comunicative Function (CF):

1.-Expositive Text: 

a) Line 5: “…according to the two sides.”

 

b) Line 5:” Activists said 21 civilians were killed”

Source of the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15508630

MOAMMAR GADHAFI DEAD: HOW REBELS KILLED THE DICTATOR?

By Jeffrey Kofman and Kelvin Dolak


Oct 21, 2011

1 Celebrations continued across Libya the day after Moammar Gadhafi was killed by

2 rebel forces in his hometown of Sirte, while details of the hours and minutes that led

3 up to his death begin to surface. Gadhafi's grisly final moments were captured on a 

4grainy cell phone video that shows the former Libyan leader surrounded by a frenzied 

5 mob of rebels. Men are seen grabbing at him, propping him up, and pummeling him 

6 while he can be seen dazed, attempting speech and bleeding profusely.
7The final hunt for Gadhafi began around 8 a.m. Thursday in Sirte, which is the former
8 leader's hometown and was one of the final loyalist strongholds of his regime. The 
9 rebels who took control of Libya in February began what they hoped would be their 
10 final offensive to conquer the town.

Source: ABCnews.go.com

Source: ABCnews.go.com

GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS


Referents

LINE	REFERENT	WHAT DOES IT REFER TO?	FUNCTION	GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
2	his	hometown	Cataphoric	Possessive adjetive
2	while	To the previous idea		Contrast connector
2	that			Conjunction
4	that			Conjunction
4	by	A frenzied mob of rebels	Cataphoric	Preposition
5	him	Libyan leader	Anaphoric	Object Pronoun
7	which	Sirte	Anaphoric	Relative Pronoun
8	one	Sirte	Anaphoric	Indefinite Adj.
9	who	The rebels	Anaphoric	Relative Pronoun
9	what	To the following idea	Cataphoric	Relative Pronoun

VERBAL TENSES

LINE	VERB	MEANING	FUNCTION
1	Continued	Continuaron	Past simple
1	Was killed	Fue asesinado	Past participle
2-3	Led up	Siguieron-continuaron	Present simple
3	Begin	Empiezan	Present simple
3	Were captured	Fueron captados-grabados	Past simple
4	Shows	Mostrados	Present simple
4	Surrounded	Rodeado	Past simple
6	Can be seen dazed	Se le podía ver debilitado	Complex modal in passive voice
7	Began	Empezó-inició	Past simple
9	Took	Tomaron-obtuvieron	Past simple
9	Hoped	Esperaban-aspiraban	Past simple
9	Would be	Sería	Conditional
10	conquer	Controlar-dominar	Present simple

ING FORMS

LINE	-ING FORM	MEANING	FUNCTION
5	Grabbing	Gritándole	Present participle clous
5	Propping up	Arrastrándole	Present participle clous
5	Pummeling	Moviéndolo	Present participle clous
6	Attempting	Tratando-buscando	Present Progressive
6	Bleeding	Sangrando	Present Progressive

Source of the article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/moammar-gadhafi-dead-rebels-killed-dictator/story?id=14784776