Political Discourse, Media and Translation

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"Political Discourse, Media and Translation is an outstanding tribute to the interdisciplinary nature of TS. Page after page, it discloses the crucial role that the translator's agency plays within this discipline and in relation to the public. [...] The clarity, the precision and the accuracy of the content, as well as the interdisciplinary character of the whole book, make this contribution a benchmark for scholars and students involved in the fields of TS, sociology, psychology, international relations, cultural and media studies."- Cecilia FogliaUniversity of Montreal; TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, 5: 1-2 (2013)"Since the cultural turn in translation studies, which occurred during the early 1990s, scholars have focused closely upon issues of politics and power in their analysis of translated texts. Yet the corpora studied tended toward the literary, business, science, and technology; surprisingly few studies focused on political texts in the narrow sense of the word. This book fills that gap. Here we have a political analysis of political texts found in journalism and the mass media, politics squared, the exponential insights of which are profound. This book should appeal to students of translation, European languages and language policy, political science, communication, journalism, and cultural and media studies."- Professor Edwin GentzlerTranslation Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst"At the core of this volume on translation in the media are fundamental issues such as the complexity, invisibility and actual scope of 'translation': what is it, who does it, and why? Translation is contextualised in terms of its key role in the (re)presentation and (re)context-ualisation of institutional and personal discourses, covering both print and new media. By focusing on the practice of translation in this dynamic context, the book offers an important contribution to an under-researched field and in so doing, broadens and challenges current views on translation. Using a series of case studies the book demonstrates how translation helps to mediate, reframe and re-contextualise news items, public and governmental communications, and political speeches in a range of European and North American countries. Issues concerning the nature and scope of translation and its agents are addressed, preparing the way for future studies and possible answers to the important questions which the book raises."- Professor Margaret RogersCentre for Translation Studies, Department of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Surrey, UK