Topic: Gatekeeping and Recontextualization in Journalistic Translation
Speaker: Prof. Roberto A. Valdeón, University of Oviedo
Host: Porf. Zhang Jiarui, Faculty of International Studies
Time: Nov. 19th, 2022 (Saturday) 15:10-15:40
Platform and meeting ID: Tencent meeting, 580-960-001
Speaker：
Roberto A. VALDEÓN is Professor in Translation and Pragmatics at the University of Oviedo, and Guanghua Distinguished Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, general editor of the Benjamins Translation Library and editor-in-chief of Perspectives. He is the author of over two hundred publications on translations, including Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas (John Benjamins). He has recently edited a special issue of the periodical Journalism devoted to journalistic translation.
Content：
As journalistic translation research has come of age, researchers have drawn on a variety of approaches and concepts from disciplines such as communication studies, journalism, linguistics, discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, sociology and so on. In this talk I would like to focus on two concepts that have been used in recent years, namely gatekeeping and recontextualization, the former widely used in journalism and the latter in sociology. I would like to explore ways in which the two can be combined to analyse news texts in translation and to better understand the processes involved as well as the (intended) effects upon the target audiences.
