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In:Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication
Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 113] 2023
► pp. 157–178

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Chapter 9
Using a multilingual parallel corpus for Journalistic Translation Research

The (re)construction of national images in global news

 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Published online: 2 November 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113.09li
By introducing the New York Times Multilingual Parallel Corpus (NYTMPC), this contribution illustrates how multilingual parallel corpora can be designed, constructed, and used for Journalistic Translation Research (JTR). Also, by drawing on a theoretical framework interconnecting imagology and journalistic translation, I conduct a pilot study to demonstrate the exploitation of the NYTMPC for studying national image construction in news translation. The results indicate that stereotyped images of China in English news are reconstructed differently in their Chinese and Spanish translations, and the translational factors that underlie this process are uncovered more clearly with the aid of multilingual parallel corpora.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Approaching national images in journalistic translation
  • 3.Multilingual parallel corpora: Methodological considerations
  • 4.The New York Times multilingual parallel corpus
    • 4.1Corpus structure
    • 4.2Data source, text selection and corpus building
  • 5.Reconstructing national images in multilingual news
    • 5.1Reconstructing images of China by labeling news
    • 5.2Depicting China in news headlines
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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