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Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism

Behind the scenes of Swiss television newsrooms
  • Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin
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Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence
This chapter is in the book Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence

Abstract

This chapter focuses on translingual quoting (TQ), i.e. the sub-process of news-writing by which utterances from sources are both quoted and translated. Analyses of journalists’ mental and material activities suggest conceptualizing TQ as a complex and dynamic activity in which journalists’ individual and collective (e.g. institutional) language awareness, knowledge, and practices interact with multi-layered contexts of text production. Based on this empirically and theoretically grounded concept of TQ, the chapter presents a two-part typology of TQ: in sequential TQ, ready-made media items or interview materials are translated into another language; in parallel TQ, interviews and/or texts for media items are produced in different languages by one and the same journalist.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on translingual quoting (TQ), i.e. the sub-process of news-writing by which utterances from sources are both quoted and translated. Analyses of journalists’ mental and material activities suggest conceptualizing TQ as a complex and dynamic activity in which journalists’ individual and collective (e.g. institutional) language awareness, knowledge, and practices interact with multi-layered contexts of text production. Based on this empirically and theoretically grounded concept of TQ, the chapter presents a two-part typology of TQ: in sequential TQ, ready-made media items or interview materials are translated into another language; in parallel TQ, interviews and/or texts for media items are produced in different languages by one and the same journalist.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Platform
  5. Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism 15
  6. Chapter 2. Transediting Trump 43
  7. Chapter 3. News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites 63
  8. Part II. Event
  9. Chapter 4. News through a social media filter 85
  10. Chapter 5. Framing terrorism in the U.S., French, and Arabic editions of HuffPost 107
  11. Part III. Practice
  12. Chapter 6. Globalization of the emerging media newsroom 135
  13. Chapter 7. Tracing convergence in the translation of community radio news 155
  14. Chapter 8. Technological convergence threatening translation 177
  15. Index 209
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.146.01haa

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Platform
  5. Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism 15
  6. Chapter 2. Transediting Trump 43
  7. Chapter 3. News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites 63
  8. Part II. Event
  9. Chapter 4. News through a social media filter 85
  10. Chapter 5. Framing terrorism in the U.S., French, and Arabic editions of HuffPost 107
  11. Part III. Practice
  12. Chapter 6. Globalization of the emerging media newsroom 135
  13. Chapter 7. Tracing convergence in the translation of community radio news 155
  14. Chapter 8. Technological convergence threatening translation 177
  15. Index 209
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