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20 - Translating News

from Part IV - Translation in Practice: Factual Genres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

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Lucile Davier
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Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
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University of Leicester
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Summary

News translation is generally meant for a broad, mainly lay audience. As Chapter 20 explores, the challenge here is less a divide between lay and expert text user, and more the fact that much news translation is undertaken by non-professional translators, namely journalists themselves. This particularity makes news translation an integral part of non-professional interpreting and translation. The chapter discusses the organizations that translate news and outlines the stages of text production at which translation occurs. Finally, it offers a glimpse into the past to the beginning of news translation, with the birth of newswires, and suggests a view of the future of news translation.

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Non-professional translatorsinterpretersjournalistsorganizationstext productionhistorynewswiresfuture
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The Cambridge Handbook of Translation , pp. 401 - 420
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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