Transediting Trump’s inaugural speech in Italian daily newspapers

Caimotto, Maria Cristina

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“…President Trump's inaugural speech, and how it was conveyed by eight Italian newspapers. Building on previous work by Munday (2018) and Caimotto (2019), she shows that the selection of material used in the media conveyed different approximations of the Trump address to their target readership. Thus, while two newspapers opted for a positive representation, the other six were far more critical.…”

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Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

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2020

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In their introduction to the much-quoted edited collection Translation, Power, Subversion, Álvarez and Vidal (1996, p. 2) posit that translation is one the most representative paradigms of the clash between cultures. In their view, it is important to examine the relationship between the production of "knowledge in a given culture and its transmission, relocation and reinterpretation in the target culture". Álvarez and Vidal underscore the influence of the translator as well as the power relationship that the source and target cultures may have upon the translation practice. Although twenty-five years have passed since the publication of their book, Álvarez and Vidal's work keeps resonating in a world that has become increasingly globalized and where power can be exerted in myriad ways. For Álvarez and Vidal, translation is a political act. And, it may be added, non-translation also is. The influence of politics on translation practice can be observed in the translation of political texts but, as Gagnon claims (2010, p. 252), also in the use of translation as a political statement. The former can be exemplified by the translation of political speeches, such as that of President Donald Trump's inaugural address (discussed by Caimotto's article in this special issue); the translation of news articles, such as those rendered into English and Portuguese by El País or into Spanish and Chinese by The New York Times; and the translation of political texts, such as the works of Karl Marx and his followers that were rendered into Chinese at the beginning of twentieth century. As for translation as a political statement, it refers to the underlying policies that lead to those translations. If we peruse the Spanish versions of The New York Times, for instance, we realize that the texts are only a small fraction of what is published in the English version. The same applies to the English articles that appeared in El País. This is, of course, related to the limited resources apportioned to the translation services of these media, but the very selection of news items to be translated is also a political act. An excellent example to study the way in which ideologies influence translation practices was the simultaneous appointments of Spain's new Prime Minister and El País's new editor back in 2018. These events provide us with an excellent example of how translation can be reflective of the ideological affinity between a government and a specific news corporation (for a discussion, see Valdeón, 2020).

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Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

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“…In line with Munday's study, Caimotto (2019) has examined the Trump inauguration ceremony, although she focused on international media reactions and their translations. Caimotto used a critical approach to analyse Trump's political language as reported worldwide, but with particular reference to seven online Italian news outlets.…”

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

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2020

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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.

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Transediting Trump’s inaugural speech in Italian daily newspapers

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Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

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

News media translation

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