Pro- and anti-whaling discourses in British and Japanese newspaper reports in comparison: a cross-cultural perspective

Murata, Kumiko

doi:10.1177/0957926507082194

Cited by 15 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 30 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It has been documented that the Japanese media lack independence, with an over-close relationship with government [34] existing in the form of the Kisha-Kurabu (reporters' club) present in every ministry and government agency. 18 Murata (2007) [36] notes that articles about whaling in the Japanese press are written in a factual style (although ''factual'' can also disguise a presentation that is essentially ''evaluative''), using non-emotive lexis tending to reflect official statements made by the GOJ. Many articles also attempt to convey a sense that whaling is not under threat and that it is not a contentious issue.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whaling and its controversies: Examining the attitudes of Japan's youth

Bowett

Hay

2009

Marine Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whaling and its controversies: Examining the attitudes of Japan's youth

Bowett

Hay

2009

Marine Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Previous studies have found that using intransitive verbs (including ergative verbs discussed in this study) can achieve the pragmatic purpose of avoiding accusations, and that native English speakers tend to be more confident in using ergative verbs when writing compositions (Sotillo & Starace-Nastasi 1999;Fang 2001;Berk-Seligson 2002;Kuo & Nakamura 2005;Lillian 2007;Murata 2007). However, these studies were largely based on analyzing texts from composition writing sources.…”

Section: Ergative Verbs and Accusation-avoidance Translation Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…A great deal of research has been done on how to de-focus the agent of an action or process (Langacker 1987;Fang 1994;Gerbig 1997;Comrie 1989;Hagiwara 1992;Stubbs 1994;Sotillo & Starace-Nastasi 1999;Cai 2000;Fang 2001;Berk-Seligson 2002;Kuo & Nakamura 2005;Yu 2006;Mo 2006;Li 2007;Lillian 2007;Murata 2007). For example, Fang (1994) compared the editing and reporting strategies used by a Chinese government-funded English newspaper when covering news events in its 'friendly' countries against those in the 'hostile' ones.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The application of ergative verbs to avoid accusations in the translation of Chinese editorials into English

Dong

Yang

2018

Lingua Posnaniensis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Dahui Dong & Mu-Li Yang. The application of ergative verbs to avoid accusations in the translation of Chinese editorials into English. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 17-32The use of ergative verbs results in the agent being backgrounded in an English sentence, and it is often used in the media together with other means such as the use of intransitive verbs, passives, and nominalized nouns to achieve the pragmatic purpose of accusation avoidance. A great deal of research has been done on the role of ergative verbs in media discourse in English as well as the acquisition of ergative verbs by learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). However, it remains unclear how EFL Chinese learners of advanced levels of competence, such as postgraduates of translation majors and professional translators, use ergative verbs when translating newspaper editorials from Chinese into English. Nor is it clear whether learners have acquired the requisite knowledge of ergative verbs in order to use them effectively so as to avoid blaming the agent of an action or process in translation. This study recruited 30 native Chinese-speaking translators who fell into three categories: undergraduate translators, graduate translators, and professional translators. A small parallel translation corpus was built, which consisted of 150 English translations of 5 Chinese editorials produced by the translators. Accusation-avoidance expressions in the source text and their translations were then extracted and input into an SPSS spreadsheet. The results show that the use of ergative verbs in translations by undergraduate translators is significantly higher than in translations by graduate and professional translators in terms of quantity. The results of the study may be useful for translation teaching and learning.

show abstract

“…58 is explains why Kumiko Murata has also acknowledged that Japanese editorials on the whaling issue are written 'as if the writer is reporting an o cial statement on behalf of the Japanese government. ' 59 us, in the current environment, Japanese media only have limited options, and act as if they are public relations agencies for their government.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Newspaper Reporting of Whaling in Australia and Japan: A Comparative Content Analysis

Kimura¹

2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstracte ongoing dispute over whaling is a signi cant issue of con ict between Australia and Japan. It appears that the print media in each country supports the dominant opinion: anti-whaling in Australia, and pro-whaling in Japan. To investigate media perspectives, this study reviews newspaper coverage throughout a whaling season (15 December 2007 -24 March 2008, analysing 48 articles from Australian newspapers (in English) and 51 articles from Japanese newspapers (in Japanese). Content analysis was employed to identify the characteristics of the newspaper articles. It is believed that reporting can contribute to cultural and political transparency by providing comprehensive views on the whaling issue. However, the ndings here indicate that the current state of whaling reporting tends to be one-sided. is study assesses how the whaling issue is reported in both Australia and Japan, and what in uences that reporting. It also focuses on Japan's kisha club (reporters' club) system to shed some light on why Japanese journalists report pro-whaling perspectives given international criticism from Australia.

show abstract

Pro- and anti-whaling discourses in British and Japanese newspaper reports in comparison: a cross-cultural perspective

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Whaling and its controversies: Examining the attitudes of Japan's youth

Whaling and its controversies: Examining the attitudes of Japan's youth

The application of ergative verbs to avoid accusations in the translation of Chinese editorials into English

Newspaper Reporting of Whaling in Australia and Japan: A Comparative Content Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About