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Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research

The (re)construction of national images in global news

Abstract

By introducing the New York Times Multilingual Parallel Corpus (NYTMPC), this contribution illustrates how multilingual parallel corpora can be designed, constructed, and used for Journalistic Translation Research (JTR). Also, by drawing on a theoretical framework interconnecting imagology and journalistic translation, I conduct a pilot study to demonstrate the exploitation of the NYTMPC for studying national image construction in news translation. The results indicate that stereotyped images of China in English news are reconstructed differently in their Chinese and Spanish translations, and the translational factors that underlie this process are uncovered more clearly with the aid of multilingual parallel corpora.

Abstract

By introducing the New York Times Multilingual Parallel Corpus (NYTMPC), this contribution illustrates how multilingual parallel corpora can be designed, constructed, and used for Journalistic Translation Research (JTR). Also, by drawing on a theoretical framework interconnecting imagology and journalistic translation, I conduct a pilot study to demonstrate the exploitation of the NYTMPC for studying national image construction in news translation. The results indicate that stereotyped images of China in English news are reconstructed differently in their Chinese and Spanish translations, and the translational factors that underlie this process are uncovered more clearly with the aid of multilingual parallel corpora.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
  4. Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
  5. Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
  6. Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
  7. Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
  8. Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
  9. Chapter 6. run away! 108
  10. Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
  11. Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
  12. Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
  13. Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
  14. Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
  15. Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
  16. Index 235
Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research
This chapter is in the book Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113.09li

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Cross-linguistic research and corpora 1
  4. Chapter 1. Light Verb Constructions as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis 12
  5. Chapter 2. Light Verb Constructions in English-Spanish translation 34
  6. Chapter 3. Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German 51
  7. Chapter 4. “Ich bekomme es erklärt” 67
  8. Chapter 5. Exploring near-synonyms through translation corpora 91
  9. Chapter 6. run away! 108
  10. Chapter 7. Film dialogue synchronization and statistical dubbese 124
  11. Chapter 8. Opera audio description in the spoken-written language continuum 142
  12. Chapter 9. Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research 157
  13. Chapter 10. Domain-adapting and evaluating machine translation for institutional German in South Tyrol 179
  14. Chapter 11. Word alignment in the Russian-Chinese parallel corpus 195
  15. Chapter 12. Building corpus-based writing aids from Spanish into English 216
  16. Index 235
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