Description
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.
Provides an accessible introduction to research in translation practices, processes and products in the news media present and past.
About the Author
Federico Zanettin is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation. His research interests include corpus-based translation studies, and the study of the translation of graphic narratives. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, is the author of Translation-Driven Corpora (2012) and the editor of Comics in Translation (2008).
Reviews
'... an extremely useful overview, and a convincing practical exemplification, of the conceptual and methodological tools that can be brought to bear in the study of such an elusive object as translation in the news media.' Giuseppe Palumbo, Contrastive Pragmatics
'... 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781108456401
Author Federico Zanettin
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 151mm * 15mm
Provides an accessible introduction to research in translation practices, processes and products in the news media present and past.
About the Author
Federico Zanettin is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation. His research interests include corpus-based translation studies, and the study of the translation of graphic narratives. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, is the author of Translation-Driven Corpora (2012) and the editor of Comics in Translation (2008).
Reviews
'... an extremely useful overview, and a convincing practical exemplification, of the conceptual and methodological tools that can be brought to bear in the study of such an elusive object as translation in the news media.' Giuseppe Palumbo, Contrastive Pragmatics
'... 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781108456401
Author Federico Zanettin
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 370g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 151mm * 15mm
