Towards alternatives to mechanistic models of translation in contemporary journalism

The 'domestication norm' has been frequently identified as a feature of news translation. However, a paradigm shift in translational behaviour in news production might be underway, coinciding in time with the democratisation of free machine translation services. An analysis of a corpus of...

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Published inLanguage and intercultural communication Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 395 - 410
Main Author Martín Ruano, M. Rosario
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 04.05.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Corpus analysis
domesticación
domestication
Journalism
Machine translation
News media
News translation
periodismo científico
Power
power relations
relaciones de poder
scientific journalism
Spanish language
traducción automática
Traducción periodística
Translation
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ISSN1470-8477
1747-759X
DOI10.1080/14708477.2021.1882478

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Summary:The 'domestication norm' has been frequently identified as a feature of news translation. However, a paradigm shift in translational behaviour in news production might be underway, coinciding in time with the democratisation of free machine translation services. An analysis of a corpus of science-journalism articles published in a 'hyperlocal' Spanish medium, including reactions from readers, will confirm this hypothesis. Exploring the effects and implications of the adoption of (scarcely) post-edited machine translation procedures in the production of digital news will offer grounds for delineating alternatives to the 'mechanistic' translation practices that are on the rise in contemporary journalism.
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ISSN:1470-8477
1747-759X
DOI:10.1080/14708477.2021.1882478