| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Translating the news : a globally relevant field for applied linguistics research |
| Authors: | Perrin, Daniel Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen |
| Published in: | The future of applied linguistics : local and global perspectives |
| Page(s): | 352 |
| Pages to: | 372 |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cambridge Scholars Publishers |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cambridge |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4438-3573-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Newsroom; Translation; Multilingualism; Ethnography |
| Subject (DDC): | 070: News media, journalism and publishing 418.02: Translating and interpreting |
| Abstract: | Globalization and media convergence have given rise to novel forms of news networks and markets in various languages all over the world; a diversity that poses increasing challenges for journalists and editors of foreign news. Although not educated as professional translators, journalists constantly work between languages during text production in the newsroom and therefore produce real life multilingualism. The question of interest in this chapter is what journalists do when their source materials are in different languages from the target language of their outgoing texts. More specifically, we explore whether institutionalized translation policies guide journalistic practices in such circumstances or whether journalists develop and rely on their own translation strategies. The methodology applied combines newsroom ethnography with in-depth analysis of writing processes, workplace conversations and interviews with media management. In this chapter, we draw on data from four television newsrooms in Switzerland, a highly multilingual country. Our findings indicate that translation is involved in every aspect of news production, including how journalists handle their source materials, their target texts, and their social environment. However, translation in the newsroom is based primarily on individuals’ implicit and tacit knowledge, not on explicit organizational knowledge. We conclude by suggesting how insights from this research can be generalized and contribute to increasing organizational knowledge of media companies. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5076 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Perrin, D., & Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2012). Translating the news : a globally relevant field for applied linguistics research. In The future of applied linguistics : local and global perspectives (pp. 352–372). Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
Perrin, D. and Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2012) ‘Translating the news : a globally relevant field for applied linguistics research’, in The future of applied linguistics : local and global perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 352–372.
D. Perrin and M. Ehrensberger-Dow, “Translating the news : a globally relevant field for applied linguistics research,” in The future of applied linguistics : local and global perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012, pp. 352–372.
PERRIN, Daniel und Maureen EHRENSBERGER-DOW, 2012. Translating the news : a globally relevant field for applied linguistics research. In: The future of applied linguistics : local and global perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers. S. 352–372. ISBN 978-1-4438-3573-2
Perrin, Daniel, and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow. 2012. “Translating the News : A Globally Relevant Field for Applied Linguistics Research.” In The Future of Applied Linguistics : Local and Global Perspectives, 352–72. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
Perrin, Daniel, and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow. “Translating the News : A Globally Relevant Field for Applied Linguistics Research.” The Future of Applied Linguistics : Local and Global Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012, pp. 352–72.
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