WS 2011/2012                          exam translation (advanced)                   text #13: word list

1)  (to be) shocked
2)  riot
3)  to compete
4)  libertine (adj.)
5)  tabloid
6)  any number
7)  the indigeneous population
8)  a major part of the appeal
9)  specificity
10) , for better or for worse,
11) contemporary
12) carefully targeted popular audience
13) over time
14) to weave their version of the fabric of national life
15) much of the power
16) to accrue
17) evolution
18) popular print culture
19) merely
20) the latest
21) permutation
22) in periodical form
23) link (noun)
24) print media
25) ordinary people
26) as old as print itself
27) to realize
28) by distributing popular printed material
29) could reach the weirdest possible readership
30) to maximize profits
31) to appeal to
32) to build upon
33) accepted patterns
34) to frame ... in a language
35) with which the audience would be familiar
36) print culture had widened
37) vernacular
38) the Latin landscape of the mediaeval period
39) to enhance
40) specific attributes
41) were directly linked to the communicative power
42) to draw in a wider community of …
43) as active participants in the nation
44) how it was given textual coherence
45) by the emergence of novels
46) the latter (plural)
47) to enable
48) to picture itself as moving as a body
49) to broaden out
50) to perceive itself as a national public
51) articulating its own set of identifiable opinions

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