Abstracts
Abstract
News trans-editing, which has gate-keeping and adaptation as distinctive features, is widely adopted by news organizations to produce suitable target texts. Since news organizations are socially, politically and economically situated, news trans-editing is always mediated in one way or another. Using the trans-editing of quotation as a key, this paper conducts an empirical case study and investigates how the target newspapers’ ideologies systematically manipulate the seemingly “objective” trans-edited news texts.
The case study data covers some news texts concerning China’s anti-secession law from the New York Times and the Washington Post, and their trans-edited Chinese versions from the China Times, the United Daily News and the Liberty Times in Taiwan. After introducing the relevant contextual factors, a comparative study of the source and target texts is made in terms of the following four aspects of quotation to identify recurrent shifts: quotation modes, news sources, quotation contents and reporting verbs. By analyzing ideological reasons behind the recurrent shifts against the contextual factors, this paper elaborates on the target newspapers’ ideological manipulation with practical examples.
Keywords:
- news trans-editing,
- quotation,
- manipulation,
- ideology,
- anti-secession law
Résumé
Du fait que les organes de presse sont situés, du point de vue social, économique et politique, la transédition d’informations est toujours biaisée d’une manière ou d’une autre, à cause de plusieurs contraintes liées au contexte. Cet article, en utilisant la transédition de citations comme élément-clé, présente une étude de cas qui examine la manière dont les idéologies du journal biaisent de manière systématique l’objectivité apparente des textes d’informations transédités.
Les données examinées couvrent quelques textes d’informations concernant la loi chinoise anti-sécessionniste, extraits du New York Times et du Washington Post, et leurs versions transéditées en chinois extraites du China Times, du United Daily News et du Liberty Times à Taiwan. Après l’introduction des facteurs contextuels pertinents se trouve une étude comparative des sources et des textes d’informations ciblés en fonction des quatre aspects suivants des citations, afin d’identifier les mouvements récurrents : les modes de citations, les sources d’informations, le contenu des citations et les verbes employés. En analysant les raisons idéologiques qui expliquent les mouvements récurrents, par rapport aux facteurs contextuels, cet article démontre le biais idéologique des journaux ciblés par des exemples.
Mots-clés :
- transédition d’informations,
- citation,
- biais,
- idéologie,
- loi anti-sécessionniste
Appendices
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