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Stylistic Deceptions in Online News: Journalistic Style and the Translation of Culture
Get PDFThis book demonstrates the central role played by the stylistic features of online news in constructing meaning and shaping cultural representations of people and places – in particular, France and Muslims/Islam. Taking the 2016 violent attack in Nice, France as a case study, Ashley Riggs analyses online news coverage of the attack from the UK, Spain, and Switzerland, three distinct linguistic and cultural spaces. An innovative mixed-methods approach, including content analysis and elements of translation criticism and comparative stylistics, is used to analyse this corpus, revealing the frequency and influence of stylistic devices found in online news and exploring how they help to shape reader interpretations.
Drawing conclusions about journalistic practices by place and interrogating the notions of 'European identity' and 'European journalism', Stylistic Deceptions in Online News reveals how stylistic features may vary according to both political leanings and national and regional contexts, and the influence these features have upon readers
How terrorism is “made to mean”, or why we should study stylistic features of news
Get PDFThis study examines instances of metaphor in two British news sources: the left-leaning Guardian and the right-leaning Telegraph. The symbolic value attributed to terrorism is discussed, as well as the role of the journalist which, when she reports on events happening abroad, it is argued, is that of a translator of culture. Findings highlight in particular metaphors of war/violence, plants/growth, water and disease. The news sources use these symbolically powerful metaphors in diverging ways which also reflect their political affiliation. Both sources emphasize violence and negativity in a way that is likely to heighten fear and distrust of certain groups, in particular Muslims. Metaphor warrants further attention from journalists, translators and readers, as well as further research by scholars studying journalism and translation
Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine (2013). Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics.
Get PDFReview of Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's book Reading, translating, rewriting: Angela Carter’s translational poetics, from a translation studies perspective
Les trois réécritures du « Petit Chaperon rouge » d’Angela Carter en français : tours et détours
No full textCe texte propose l'analyse de trois réécritures de contes tirées du recueil The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter et de leurs traductions françaises par Jacqueline Huet dans La Compagnie des loups. Il aborde la mise en recueil et le titre des ouvrages ainsi que les divergences dans la séquence des contes qui encouragent des lectures différentes ; il propose ensuite une analyse comparative des textes anglais et de leurs traductions, afin de montrer comment la traduction contribue à orienter la réception du recueil de Carter par un public francophone. La version française propose de nouvelles pistes interprétatives qui « rapatrient » les contes dans la tradition littéraire française. Elle apporte également des modifications stylistiques qui s'accordent avec cette tradition mais qui atténuent certains choix marqués et variations de style caractéristiques de l'œuvre de Carter. Enfin, la nouvelle composition offerte par la version française confère aux textes une tonalité sombre, qui contraste fortement avec celle, optimiste et émancipatrice, de The Bloody Chamber
On France, terrorism, and the English press: Examining the impact of style in the news
No full textThis chapter is part of a larger study of British, Spanish, and Swiss news reporting on terrorist events in France; “translation” is understood here as the transfer of culture rather than of language per se. I apply a predominantly qualitative approach that draws upon both prior research (for example, Brownlie, 2010; Conway, 2012; Davier, 2009, 2015) and translation criticism (Hewson, 2011; Riggs, 2014) to online news from the Guardian and the Telegraph, in order to answer the following questions: how do mainstream English news articles portray France and the French as they report on a recent terrorist attack in France? In particular, how do stylistic elements shape their representations?
Only rarely has style been recognized as a feature of non-literary texts (for example, Boase-Beier 2011; Simpson, 2004). Recently, however, Federici has called specifically for applying stylistics to the study of on-line news and highlighted the “urgent need to fill the research gap concerning the linguistic elements of cultural interactions in emergencies” (Federici 2016, p. 19). This chapter demonstrates the value of examining stylistic elements in terror-related news and the ways they contribute to reinforcing or challenging representations which “other” foreign and/or minority groups – a significant issue given the media’s influence on public opinion, cultural debate and policy
Of Tales, tragic opera, transformation and “tongues”: Tristan und Isolde in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
No full textThis chapter explores a hitherto under-researched aspect of Angela Carter’s writings: her subversive incorporation of Wagner’s opera, Tristan und Isolde, into her seminal Bloody Chamber collection. Indeed, Carter uses (and abuses) the Tristan motif to critically examine art and myth, deconstruct fixed binaries and reconfigure tired archetypes as hybrid figures that defy boundaries and challenge culturally inculcated beliefs about gender relations, eroticism, and art.
These moves, coupled with the performative nature of both Wagner’s opera and Carter’s tales, also anticipate current trends in feminist and queer theory, thereby guaranteeing the continued relevance of the collection for the twenty-first century. This initial study of Carter’s critical dialogue with Wagner’s Tristan demonstrates the important role played by Tristan und Isolde in Carter’s “demythologizing” use of fairy tale and her feminist project in The Bloody Chamber
Multiple metamorphoses, or “new skins” for an old tale: Emma Donoghue’s queer Cinderella in translation
No full textThrough an analysis of Emma Donoghue's fairy-tale rewriting “The Tale of the Shoe” and its French translation by Valérie Cossy, this chapter examines the multiple transformations of the well-known Cinderella figure: in the famous rags-to-riches tale itself, in Donoghue's rewriting, and again in the French translation. Through the interrogation and re-creation of the heroine's story, Donoghue both fashions queer figures and enacts various meanings of the term “queer”, including “calling into question”, marginality, and even “state of malaise” or “queasiness”. In the second part of the chapter, a comparative analysis of tale and translation demonstrates that the French version, sometimes surprisingly, sometimes highly effectively, provides the well-known tale with a “new skin”, in line with the context of its new publication and in particular the sensual and ambiguous photographs in the French-language journal. The translation choices which lead to a resemanticization of the tale for its new context are highly effective, although the attenuation of some of the key characteristics of Donoghue's text, such as mockery, criticism, ambiguity and bathos, may lessen the overall impact of the story. Nevertheless, both versions offer the reader new possibilities for identification and identity construction, demonstrating that, like the Cinderella figure, like fairy tales, like our notions of ideal settings and ideal endings, the reader can also be transformed
Il était une fois in South Africa : Translating for South African children : from theory to pratice
No full textDrawing on examples from children's books, this thesis looks at various aspects of translating for children, such as the definition of children's literature, its characteristics, and the intended and real of children's texts. Focusing predominantly on Le requin bleu, a children's story written in French by French author Jean-François Radiguet but set in South Africa, I examined certain translation theories and concepts (polysystem theory, transactional theory of reading, norms of translation, and functionalist theories) and their relevance to translating for children. I also translated extracts from the book and demonstrated how the specific features of the intended reader of my target text influenced the choices I made
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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