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Translation in Global News

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Translation Strategies in Global News

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This chapter reviews findings in the news translation literature on the nature of the translation involved in written news. It describes the characteristics of translation in global news that both complicate its investigation and obscure its involvement. The chapter then looks at debates in translation studies surrounding ‘domestication’ and ‘foreignisation’, terms used to describe two opposing translation strategies, one which obscures the foreignness of the source language and culture (a domesticating strategy), and another that exposes it (a foreignising strategy). The chapter closes by examining the norm for domesticating strategies in the news. It reviews conclusions in the literature regarding the non-relevance of foreignisation in a news translation context, and points to the potential for news translation strategies that are only foreignising to a degree.

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Scammell, C. (2018). Translation in Global News. In: Translation Strategies in Global News. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74024-9_3

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