News Media Translation

Provides an accessible introduction to research in translation practices, processes and products in the news media present and past.

Federico Zanettin (Author)

9781108470704, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2021

300 pages
23.5 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg

'… Zanettin's introduction to news media translation offers an in-depth historical account and an analytical method most likely to reveal the 'reality' behind reported events, as far as it can be.' Donald R. Riccomini, Society for Technical Communication

As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role of in the production and dissemination of the news. The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences. This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical and descriptive perspectives. Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis and narrative theory to Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.

1. Putting News Media Translation into Perspective
2. Translation as News
3. Approaches to News Media Translation
4. Ethnomethodology and News Media Translation
Conclusion Appendix
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Sociology [JHB], Media studies [JFD], Linguistics [CF]