Introduction

As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role in the production and dissemination of the news.

The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and is a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences.

Content Overview

This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products, and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical, and descriptive perspectives.

Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism, and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative theory, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Corpus Linguistics.

The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.