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A creative and recreative conceptualization of source text : The case of journalistic translation; 
Authors: Huotari, Léa
Editors: Edited by Malin Carlström and Richard Pleijel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year: 2026
Journal: Benjamins Translation Library
Book title : A (Re)turn to the Source Text
Series title: Benjamins Translation Library
Number in series: 169
First page : 88
Last page: 115
ISBN: 978-90-272-3391-2
eISBN: 978-90-272-4397-3
ISSN: 0929-7316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.169.03huo
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This chapter examines the source text concept in journalistic translation, focusing on foreign news reporting. It emphasizes the characteristics of source texts in newswriting, prompting a reevaluation and expansion of the source text conceptualization within translation studies. Drawing on Jakobson’s (1959) translation typology, the article categorizes source texts by their diversity, language, and degree of mediation. A case study on the coverage of the 2022 French presidential election by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat exemplifies this categorization. The analysis shows that foreign reporting does not rely solely on traditional interlingual source texts; it also employs intralingual and intersemiotic source texts. Furthermore, it demonstrates the dependence of newswriting on a multitude of disparate, fragmented, and multilayered source texts.
Keywords:
intersemiotic source text, intralingual source text, journalistic translation, mediated text
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