Prof. Anne O’Connor was delighted to present more PIETRA work and share ideas with colleagues at the Translation and the News conference in Lisbon in June. Her presentation discussed “Multimodal News: Translating Clustered Meaning”.
The fundamental aim of the event was to enquire into the various intersections that can arise from putting journalism and translation studies in dialogue, thus contributing to the development of a subarea of both translation and journalism studies which has still room to explore. Journalistic translation opens up new research avenues concerning both news and translation. However, while translation studies’ scholars have initiated a discussion around translation practices in the news, journalism studies have not yet addressed the relevance of translation as a key practice in news writing.
We would like to thank the organisers for a wonderfully focused and stimulating conference.
