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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
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
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
More than a Makeover : Translation Practices in Netflix's Queer Eye
No full textMedia representation and acceptance for minority groups have recently become important factors in the American entertainment industry. As content produced in the United States is marketed abroad, however, translators must examine how their work meets the expectations and values of different cultures from around the world. This paper looks at the way American queer language has been translated in the French dub of the Netflix series Queer Eye. In particular, it examines how the translations of American queerspeak represent and encourage acceptance for queer communities. Five categories of queerspeak (queer lexicon, gender-fluid languge, sexualized language, exaggeration, and camp pop culture references) have been used to better analyze the language used and determine the effects of the translation
Race In the Eye of the Beholder : perspectives on the racial passing trope, as seen through French translations of Nella Larsen's Passing
No full textRacial passing has long been a subject of fascination in American literature, as the act destabilizes notions of race as a stable marker of identity. How, then, are the complexities of passing narratives rendered in other linguistic and cultural contexts? This study examines two French translations of Nella Larsen's PASSING (1929) from three different perspectives. The first section assesses how the paratexts surrounding the French editions set up reader expectations of PASSING and its Harlem Renaissance setting. Following is an examination of the French texts' approaches to translating cultural signifiers and how these decisions give an idea of the intended readership of each edition. The last section compares passages from the source and target texts on a stylistic level to determine whether there are significant differences in narratorial attitudes toward race or toward characters who pass that could lead to divergent interpretations of the work's prevailing themes
Climate change victims and villains : Analyzing discourses on climate change in French and English online news articles
No full textThis paper analyzes the language and rhetorical devices used to portray natural disasters and migrations caused by climate change in French and English articles from two European online newspapers: Euronews and France 24. The analysis was carried out using comparable corpora to document occurrences of different rhetorical devices and words, such as personification, alliteration, metaphor, and victimizing language. The results showed a tendency to use villainizing language when describing climate events and victimizing language when portraying climate migrants in both languages. I argue that the villainizing and victimizing language used to portrays climate events as monsters/killers and climate migrants as their victims discourages readers from taking responsibility for their contribution to climate change and from fighting against it
The Missing Mode: How Access to Images Affects Art Museum Translations
No full textThis study examines how access to images affects the translation quality of exhibition text for art museums, as perceived by translation clients and end users. The study was designed as an experiment in which 15 professional translators translated an artwork label; seven translators had access to the artwork image and eight did not. Quality was measured both quantitatively and qualitatively using a questionnaire administered to three client evaluators (i.e. museum curators) and 10 end user evaluators (i.e. museumgoers). Both client and end-user evaluators found that translations produced with images were more accurate and used more appropriate lexis than translations produced without images. With regard to quantitative quality ratings, client evaluators strongly preferred translations produced with images, while end users showed no consensus
The role of stylistic features in constructing representations of Muslims and France in English online news about terrorism in France
No full textPart of a larger study on style and cultural representation in the online news of three European countries, this article examines a corpus of news articles from the online versions of The Guardian and The Telegraph about the terrorist attack that took place in Nice, France in July 2016. Specifically, modality, use of the term ‘jihad', and treatment of ‘integration' and of Muslims are analyzed, and instances of alliteration and metaphor observed, to determine how these elements contribute to shaping journalistic representation of the event, Muslims and French society more generally. Preliminary findings suggest that both English news sources sometimes use modality to give suppositions a patina of fact, but that The Telegraph uses ‘reportedly' and ‘alleged(ly)' more often. In addition, The Guardian journalists sometimes misuse the term ‘jihad' and its derivatives, despite the clear indications about this term that are provided in the editorial guidelines, while this does not occur in The Telegraph articles. The news sources also address the topics of integration and Muslims in diverging ways, which in turn lead to distinct portrayals of French society. These differences may be tied to the political affiliations of the sources or to journalist identity, and merit further research
How online news headlines and accompanying images ‘translate’ a violent event: a cross-cultural case study
No full textIn this article, I examine UK, Swiss and Spanish online news articles that report on a violent event (Nice, France, 14 July 2016) and that were published on the first day of the news cycle. I focus in particular on the language of the headlines, and on accompanying visual material, as this would have been likely to be ‘read’ with each headline. These textual and visual elements translate the event as newsworthy and as a terrorist act. Differences across the news cultures represented are discussed, and the case is made for extending cross-cultural research on stylistic and visual features of news texts
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
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