From Adaptation to Appropriation
Framing the World Through News Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7500844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberto A Valdeón (0000-0003-1948-0473, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-62 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguaculture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2067-9696 • E-ISSN: 2285-9403 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.1515/lincu-2015-0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2318436715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 4 |
Terminological issues are problematic in the analysis of translation processes in news production. In the 1980s, Stetting coined the term “transediting”, which has been widely used in the translation studies literature, but “translation” itself becomes contentious in communication studies, a discipline closely related to news translation research. Only a few communication scholars have specifically dealt with the linguistic and cultural transformations of source texts, but they tend to regard translation as word-for-word transfer, unusual news production. More productive for the study of news translation seems to be the application of the concept of framing, widely used in communication studies. Framing considers the linguistic and paralinguistic elements of news texts in the promotion of certain organizing ideas that the target audience can identify with. In news translation, this entails the adaptation of a text for the target readership, a process can lead to appropriation of source material. Two examples are mentioned to illustrate this point: the appropriation of the US Department of State cables by the Wikileak organisation, and the pro-Romanian slogans produced by the Gandul newspaper as a response to Britain’s anti-immigration campaigns. The final section relates news adaptation to adaptation of other text types, such as literary and historical works
Appropriation · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Literal translation · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Sociology · Source text · Translation studies · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Media Studies and Communication · Translation Studies and Practices · History
Setting the cultural agenda for domestic readers
Representations of the 2014 Hong Kong protests in journalistic translation
On the [translated] record
Ideology and Arabic translations of news texts
Translation as re-narration
The non-translation strategy in translating Isis radical discourse
How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East
News through a social media filter
Agenda-setting and journalistic translation
Interpreting and War Journalism
Diverging narratives
Salvini, stereotypes and cultural translation
Making it Fit
Migrant Crisis in European Multilingual Media
Register phenomena as international news
Ideological shifts in the BBC headlines translated into Ukrainian and Russian
Fifteen years of journalistic translation research and more
Impact of power and ideology on news translation in Korea
The interpreter as a “national star
La selección de contenidos y la política de traducción en BBC Mundo y BBC Brasil
Same perspective, different effect
How does a national, multilingual news agency contribute to news diversity? A mixed-methods case study
Selective appropriation in the BBC news translated into Ukrainian and Russian
Interdisciplinary approaches to journalistic translation
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |