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

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the publications on journalistic translation research spanning the period 2015-present day. It includes three sections that highlight the main theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches used by researchers, namely discourse analysis and linguistics, sociology, and communication/journalism studies. As regards the latter, particularly relevant is the use of the concepts of framing, gatekeeping and convergence. These sections lead to a discussion of mixed method approaches, as defended and used by many researchers, and also serve to introduce the contributions to this issue, which represent the geographical, theoretical and methodological variety that now characterises journalistic translation research.

The Inca country: el reencuadre de las noticias traducidas al inglés por la Agencia Peruana de Noticias Andina

“…Una categoría empleada en los estudios de traducción periodística es el reencuadre, el cual permite replantear los eventos de una noticia en el nuevo contexto sociocultural de los lectores hacia los que está dirigida (Qin y Zhang, 2017;Valdeón, 2020), en un proceso que frecuentemente es influenciado por posturas ideológicas (Liu, 2017;Qin y Zhang, 2017;Wu, 2017).…”

“…Al adaptarse las traducciones a un público objetivo, se puede percibir que las noticias requieren ser recontextualizadas de acuerdo con el nuevo escopo, lo cual se asemeja a la idea de reencuadre propuesta por Baker (2006) y aplicada a la traducción periodística (Valdeón, 2020). En algunos casos, esta reelaboración a nivel lingüístico cambia la función comunicativa.…”

Representations of the 2014 Hong Kong protests in journalistic translation: A corpus-based critical framing analysis of Chinese and English news coverage

“…However, journalistic translation plays an essential role in news production and dissemination. It has established itself as a sub-field under translation studies and attracted increasing scholarly attention in the past two decades (Valdeón, 2015(Valdeón, , 2020a.…”

The translation of multimedia news stories: Rewriting the digital narrative

“…Journalistic translation, a subarea of research within Translation Studies, has studied the role of translation in news production extensively (Valdeón, 2015; 2020a). Some scholars in journalism and communication studies have also looked into this question, although to a lesser extent (e.g.…”