In blasting the 'rigged economy,' Sanders proposes raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and ensuring equal pay for women. Sanders’ speech is heavy on policy substance. But he tells his audience to think outside the box when the critics say he is radical and extreme. Sanders has run an uncompromisingly left-wing campaign.

In a speech in Mason City, Iowa, Sanders offered versions of more than a dozen specific claims we’ve checked before. Railing against the establishment and promising dramatic government intervention, Sanders wields dozens of familiar talking points again and again. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent running for the Demcratic presidential nomination for the second time, has perfected his campaign stump speech. The stump speech: Sanders one-hour rally in Mason City, Iowa, Jan 4, 2020 Read other stump speech analyzers for Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Following our summary of the speech’s main themes, we present fact-checks of specific talking points. Also, the former two categories proved to contain the majority of the translation problems that were most difficult to overcome.Editor’s note: PolitiFact is analyzing the Democratic presidential candidates’ stump speeches. As it turns out, the nature of these problems was predominantly pragmatic or culture-specific there were much fewer language-pair-specific or text-specific translation problems.

These are marked in the target text through the use of footnotes, as well as discussed more elaborately in the theoretical part of the research.

The third step is to take a closer look at the translation problems as identified by Nord that arise during the process of making this translation. More specifically, the context of American politics is analysed and Sanders’s rhetorical strategy is dissected so as to make sure this strategy is not lost when making a Dutch translation. Next, the rhetorical context of Sanders’s speech is inspected more closely. First, an appropriate target audience is selected and analysed so as to be able to choose a possible publication that is in line with this audience. This research analyses various aspects of Bernie Sanders’s announcement speech from May 26th in 2015 to see which hurdles need to be overcome in order to make an adequate translation of the speech for a Dutch audience.

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