The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media

by Esperança Bielsa (Editor)

Overview

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media provides the first comprehensive account of the role of translation in the media, which has become a thriving area of research in recent decades. It offers theoretical and methodological perspectives on translation and media in the digital age, as well as analyses of a wide diversity of media contexts and translation forms.

Divided into four parts with an editor introduction, the 33 chapters are written by leading international experts and provide a critical survey of each area with suggestions for further reading. The Handbook aims to showcase innovative approaches and developments, bridging the gap between currently separate disciplinary subfields and pointing to potential synergies and broad research topics and issues.

With a broad-ranging, critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation studies, audiovisual translation, journalism studies, film studies and media studies.

The Open Access version of Chapter 1, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367029166
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/2021
Series:	Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Pages:	566
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Esperança Bielsa is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Her research is in the areas of cultural sociology, social theory, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Her most recent books are Cosmopolitanism and Translation (2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization (with D. Kapsaskis, eds. 2021).

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: translation and/in/of media

PART I

General theoretical and methodological perspectives

1 Media and translation: historical intersections

2 Language, media and culture in an era of communicative change

3 Media translation and politics in multilingual contexts

4 The global, the foreign and the domestic. Was there a ‘global turn’ in journalism in the early 21^st century?

5 Internationalization and localization of media content. The circulation and national mediation of ready-made TV shows and formats

6 Revisiting certain concepts of translation studies through the study of media practices

7 The translating agent in the media: one or many?

8 Translation, media and paratexts

9 The multimodal dimension of translation

PART II

Translation and journalism

10 A historical overview of translation in the global journalistic field

11 Journalism and translation: overlapping practices

12 Translation in the news agencies

13 Translation in literary magazines

14 Fixers, journalists and translation

15 News translation strategies

16 Journalism and translation ethics

17 Reading translated news

PART III

Multimedia translation

18 A connected history of audiovisual translation: sources and resources

19 Film translation

20 Mapping the contemporary landscape of TV translation

21 Media interpreting

22 Translation and the World Wide Web

23 Video game localization: translating interactive entertainment

24 Translation, accessibility and minorities

25 Audiovisual translation, audiences and reception

PART IV

Translation in alternative and social media

26 Translation and social media

27 Non-professional translators and the media

28 Alternative journalism and translation

29 Subtitling practices in Islamic satellite television

30 NGOs, media and translation

31 A Deaf translation norm?

32 Online translation communities and networks

33 Wikipedia and translation

Index

Editorial Reviews

'Esperança Bielsa has assembled an excellent and timely collection of essays that explore and illuminate how our media environment is changing from print to digital and how global flows of media are increasing exponentially, demonstrating that it’s more important than ever to reconsider the complex relationships between translation and media.'

Jonathan Evans, University of Glasgow, UK

'This expertly assembled collection brings together an impressive array of contributors to provide an authoritative snapshot of media translation, both in traditional journalistic settings and social media platforms. Covering key theoretical and methodological issues in the field, the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media is a staple text for anyone interested in emerging translation practices and their impact on contemporary social imaginaries and deliberative processes.'

Luis Pérez-González, University of Agder, Norway

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