Ideological Aspects of Translating News Headlines from English to Persian

Khanjan, Alireza; Amouzadeh, Mohammad; Rasekh, Abbas Eslami; Tavangar, Manoochehr

doi:10.7202/1023811ar

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“…This claim has been empirically tested by some research which has underscored the ideological manipulation and deviation happening in Persian media translation (e.g. Khanjan et al, 2013;Shahi and Talebinejad, 2014;Talebinejad and Shahi, 2017).…”

Section: Media Translationmentioning

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Voice-over Translation of News Programs on Television: Evidence from Iran

Ameri

Khoshsaligheh

2018

Hikma

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Compared with dubbing and subtitling research, the current literature on voice-over translation is fairly scarce, and research has been mainly reported from Europe. Likewise, there are few reports on the topic from an Asian context including Iran. The main goal of this paper is, therefore, to examine voice-over translation in Iranian news broadcasting. The study uses a corpus of English news materials translated into Persian and have been broadcast on Iranian Television. The study has described Persian translation for voice-over from two perspectives: synchronization techniques, and faithfulness and ideology in translation. The overall findings suggest that voice-over translation is a common modality used for translation of foreign news reports in Iran, which entails considerable appropriation and manipulation due to solutions adopted for synchronization and ideological purposes of the news agency.Resumen: En comparación con la investigación llevada a cabo en doblaje y subtitulación, la literatura disponible hasta la fecha sobre la traducción para voice-over (o voces superpuestas) es bastante escasa y los estudios existentes se centran en Europa. Del mismo modo, este tema se ha investigado poco en Asia, especialmente en el contexto iraní. El objetivo principal del presente artículo es analizar la traducción para voice-over de programas informativos en Irán. El corpus utilizado para este estudio se compone de material en inglés traducido al persa que ha sido emitido en la televisión iraní. La traducción persa para voice-over se describe aquí desde dos perspectivas distintas: técnicas de sincronización e ideología en traducción. Los resultados sugieren que la traducción para voice-over es una modalidad empleada comúnmente en la traducción de informativos Palabras clave: voice-over, programas informativos, estrategias de sincronía, manipulación técnica e ideológica, Irán

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Section: Media Translationmentioning

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Voice-over Translation of News Programs on Television: Evidence from Iran

Ameri

Khoshsaligheh

2018

Hikma

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“…This can isolate audiences by localizing information and limiting foreign news (Davier, 2014: 66) or by propagating ambivalence, ambiguity, and stereotypes into diverse communities of public opinion (Conway, 2011: 155). In other newsrooms, translation can allow journalists to bypass conservative, suppressive gatekeepers to get information to a public (Khanjan, et al, 2013: 88). Tracing the writing process of multilingual journalists might reveal something akin to individualized skopos —aim or function—for the journalists in their reporting as they weigh information from sources and choose what to include in their published stories.…”

Section: Journalistic Skoposmentioning

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On the [translated] record: Journalistic translation and creative agency in India’s multilingual reporting

Wright

2022

Journalism

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This paper considers what influences the translation process for writers in Indian journalism: tools that guide, and structures that constrict. From in-depth interviews with Indian journalists conducted in New Delhi from 2018 to 2019, I examine creative agency in the context of multilingual reporting in India, to examine news stories not just as factual bytes of daily events but as creatively written short essays of journalistic translation. Indian journalists offer perspective on their writing processes from the initial assignment of a story idea to the fruition of the piece in publication. This research delves into how Indian journalists think about the multilingual reporting they do and the attention they pay to journalistic translation when moving from a spoken Hindi interview to an English-language article. I broadly interrogate the skopos, or aim, of journalistic translation in the context of Indian news, noting the vernacular push-and-pull of multilingual reporting disseminated in Hindi and English, or other Indian languages. I investigate how Indian journalists cope with moments of the “untranslatable” in their everyday work, if and when they recognize situations of journalistic translation, and what they consider to be underlying impacts of translated news in multilingual reporting from India. Journalists have creative agency in the way they share information that influences the skopos of multilingual reporting. Thus, the language transferred from sources to readers takes on new meanings that can have major impacts on audiences’ reading of news stories.

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“…In these countries, the news media, we could say, mainly function as propaganda machines for the governments. This role is in part reflected in the production of journalistic translations, which often involves manipulating the foreign-language information that challenges the prevailing political norms and ideologies (for illustrative examples in Iran, see Ameri and Khoshsaligheh, 2018; Khanjan et al, 2013; for China, see Pan, 2015; Xia, 2019). As Valdeón (2020a: 6) points out, in non-Western countries, news production is funded by governmental agencies, which exert a great influence on how information is translated as news outlets are expected to be supportive of the governments.…”

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Journalistic translation: A gate at which journalism studies and translation studies meet

Kalantari

2022

Journalism

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This theoretical article focuses on a part-whole relationship between journalistic translation (or news translation) and the overall process of news gatekeeping within and outside of the boundaries of media organizations. The article argues for understanding the part (i.e., journalistic translation) in light of the whole (i.e., news gatekeeping) and the whole in light of the part. In this regard, it approaches journalistic translation in terms of its relationships with other news gatekeeping operations (e.g., information selection and editing) and factors that control the whole process of news gatekeeping (e.g., organizational and social constraints); besides, it touches on the relevance of the inclusion of the concept of translation in theorizing about news gatekeeping and the potential of the findings of research on translation in news production settings to contribute to news gatekeeping scholarship.

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Ideological Aspects of Translating News Headlines from English to Persian

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Voice-over Translation of News Programs on Television: Evidence from Iran

Voice-over Translation of News Programs on Television: Evidence from Iran

On the [translated] record: Journalistic translation and creative agency in India’s multilingual reporting

Journalistic translation: A gate at which journalism studies and translation studies meet

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