A Study of Additions and Omissions in English Translations of Persian-based Social, Cultural and Political News Headlines: A Case Study of ISNA News Agency in Arab Spring

Hajar Khanmohammad; Ali Aminzad

doi:10.22962/tnirvw.2015.5..001

A Study of Additions and Omissions in English Translations of Persian-based Social, Cultural and Political News Headlines: A Case Study of ISNA News Agency in Arab Spring

T&I REVIEW
Abbr : tnirvw
2015, 5(), pp.7-27
DOI : 10.22962/tnirvw.2015.5..001
Publisher : Ewha Research Institute for Translation Studies
Research Area : Humanities > Interpretation and Translation Studies
Received : February 23, 2015
Accepted : April 8, 2015
Published : June 30, 2015

Hajar Khanmohammad ¹, Ali Aminzad ¹

¹Islamic Azad University

ABSTRACT

Additions and omissions, the techniques fundamentally approved and widely applied in news translation, are abundantly exploited by some news agencies around the word. This study sought to explore the extent to which news was misrepresented when using additions/omissions in the translations of social, cultural and political news headlines. The research primarily compares and contrasts the collected news headlines from ISNA news agency with the corresponding headlines broadcast on Press TV and IRIB English Radio, printed in Iran News and Tehran Times newspapers or with the house style headlines circulated on the websites belonging to Washington post and Independent. Applying Baker’s taxonomy of grammar and House’s overt and covert translation models, the percentile tabulation in the results section revealed that political news headlines, in comparison with social and cultural news, tolerated a wider range of modifications when translated from and into Persian by ISNA.

KEYWORDS

Addition, Omission, Overt translation, Covert translation, House Style.

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