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Mediation & Softening skills language softeners and opinion softeners
• not a translation - - Mediation Who are you mediating for? What informalin in the original text is relevant for your addressee? What type of text should you be producing? Softening skills opinion softeners •Point out that you are giving the author's view Examples: -"The author comes to the conclusion that ..." M To him/her it seems logical that..." -"If we consider the political slant of the newspaper it does not really come as a surprise that the author sees..." Language solleners avoid words that M Examples: "a regime -> use more neutral or weaker terms have "global bully" => combine both ways if it makes sense! But make sure that you don't lose the original meaning: negative connotations -> "an administration M 10 acts criminally.….. -> does not act in accordance with the law" a feeling that is acting far too dominantly in the world"
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• not a translation - - Mediation Who are you mediating for? What informalin in the original text is relevant for your addressee? What type of text should you be producing? Softening skills opinion softeners •Point out that you are giving the author's view Examples: -"The author comes to the conclusion that ..." M To him/her it seems logical that..." -"If we consider the political slant of the newspaper it does not really come as a surprise that the author sees..." Language solleners avoid words that M Examples: "a regime -> use more neutral or weaker terms have "global bully" => combine both ways if it makes sense! But make sure that you don't lose the original meaning: negative connotations -> "an administration M 10 acts criminally.….. -> does not act in accordance with the law" a feeling that is acting far too dominantly in the world"
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