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Translation Strategies in Global News

What Sarkozy said in the suburbs

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  • Highlights the responsibility of global news agencies as authors of widely-reproduced translations
  • Examines ways in which the journalistic ideals of accuracy and objectivity can be compromised by the translation process
  • Provides a fresh approach to news translation from an Anglophone perspective
  • Provides illuminating examples of how culture-specific meaning can be lost when foreign cultural concepts are domesticated
  • Explores the potential for introducing a degree of ‘foreignisation’ as a means to facilitating cross-cultural engagement and understanding

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting (PTTI)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 1-6
  3. The Global News Agencies

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 7-19
  4. Translation in Global News

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 21-31
  5. A Case for Foreignised News Translation

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 33-46
  6. The Domestication Norm in Reuters Journalism

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 59-74
  7. Conclusion

    • Claire Scammell
    Pages 93-95
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 97-98

About this book

This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences. Using English-language press coverage of inflammatory comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy in his role as French interior minister in 2005 as a case study, the author illustrates the secondary level of mediation that occurs when news crosses linguistic and cultural borders. This critical analysis examines the norm for ‘domesticating’ news translation practices and explores the potential for introducing a degree of ‘foreignisation’ as a means to facilitating cross-cultural engagement and understanding. The book places emphasis on foreign-language quotation and culture-specific concepts as two key sites of translation in the news, and addresses a need for research that clarifies where translation, as a distinct part of the newswriting process, occurs. The interdisciplinary nature of this book will appeal to a broad range of readers, in particular scholars and students in the fields of translation, media, culture and journalism studies. 





Reviews

“This volume is worth recommending to scholars in translation and practitioners in journalism, for it markedly devotes itself to the application of the foreignized approach in news translation practices. … The interdisciplinary nature of this volume will be of much interest to a wide range of readers, in particular researchers in the fields of translation, media, and journalism studies.” (Renzhong Peng, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, 2020)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Freelance translator and editor, Stevenage, United Kingdom

    Claire Scammell

About the author

Claire Scammell is a translator and editor based in the UK with 10 years’ experience in the translation industry. She was awarded a studentship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her doctoral research investigating reader response to translation strategies in the news. Her main research interests include news translation, translation as intercultural communication and focus-group methodology.



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