Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence

How has convergence affected news and translation? Convergence is a chameleon, taking a new colour in each new context, from the integrated, bilingual newsroom of a legacy broadcaster to a newsroom in an outlet that has embraced multimodality from the very start. And yet, translation scholars studying the news have ignored convergence, while media scholars studying convergence have ignored translation. They have missed the fact that convergence is intrinsically linked to language and culture. This volume brings together translation and media scholars to investigate different modes of convergence across platforms as they shape how journalists frame stories and understand their role in a multilingual, convergent world. It opens a dialogue with scholars and students in applied linguistics, communication, journalism, languages, and translation, as well as translators, interpreters, and, ultimately, journalists.

Pier-Pascale Boulanger, Université Concordia, in Meta Vol. 65:3 (2020):
L’ouvrage en traductologie journalistique propose un riche ensemble de méthodologies empruntées aux études médiatiques, à la linguistique, à la sociologie et à l’ethnographie, notamment l’analyse du contenu et du cadrage de la couverture médiatique, la comparaison de textes, l’étude de l’acteur-réseau, la linguistique computationnelle, l’analyse conversationnelle en milieu de travail ainsi que les entrevues et les sondages auprès de journalistes.