Journalistic Translation Research Goes Global

ISBN-13: 9780367626259 / Miękka / 2023 / 152 str.

Opis

Drawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation. The contributors analyse the role and impact of journalistic translation in Canada, China, Arab countries, France, Spain, the Ukraine, Finland and Serbia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Journalistic translation research goes global: theoretical and methodological considerations five years on

Roberto A. Valdeón

1. The translation of ‘transparency’ in the Canadian press: an inquiry into symbolic power

Pier-Pascale Boulanger and Chantal Gagnon

2. The role of stylistic features in constructing representations of Muslims and France in English online news about terrorism in France

Ashley Riggs

3. The translation of tweets in Spanish digital newspapers

María José Hernández Guerrero

4. Evaluation in translation: a case study of Ukrainian opinion articles

Angela Kamyanets

5. (Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: a corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)

Chonglong Gu and Rebecca Tipton

6. Politeness strategies in translating Donald Trump's offensive language into Arabic

Haneen Abudayeh and Barkuzar Dubbati

7. Instances of translatorial action: a journalist as a translating reporter of speech

Nina Havumetsä

8. Translation in Serbian media discourse: the discursive strategy of argumentation as an adaptation technique

Jasmina P. Đorđević

O autorze

Roberto A. Valdeón is professor in English Studies at the University of Oviedo (Spain), guest professor at South China Business College, Guangzhou (China), research associate at the University of the Free State (South Africa) and a member of Academia Europaea. He is the editor of Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and general editor of the Benjamins Translation Library.