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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Commun.
Sec. Culture and Communication
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1395274

Transediting the Terms Used for Describing the US Dollar in Arabic and English News Websites: A Triangulational Study of Transediting Strategies Adopted in Four Channels

Provisionally accepted
Rafat Alwazna Rafat Alwazna 1*Alawia A. Al Hamed Alawia A. Al Hamed 2
  • 1 King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • 2 Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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    News translation, which is often known as news transediting, which is concerned with the translation of materials for print and/or online mass media, has long stimulated interest within the field of translation studies. The present paper explores the strategies of transediting the terms used for describing the US dollar in the websites of four news channels, namely: Alarabiya, Aljazeera, BBC and CNN between Arabic and English from the first of July 2022 to the thirty-first of December 2022. The paper conducts triangulational analysis to identify the type and frequency of the transediting strategies used in each channel, present how certain examples of each strategy are adopted and demonstrate the similarities and differences in the type and frequency of the transediting strategies employed between the channels. The paper argues that the choice of the transediting strategy is based on the type of audience, context, the channel’s policy and the type of information intended for delivery. This paper offers a baseline for exploring the strategies of transediting the terms used for describing the US dollar in both Arabic and English news websites of the aforementioned channels, which may have implications for exploring other transediting strategies used in other news websites of different channels broadcast in different languages.

    Keywords: transediting, the US dollar, transediting strategies, News texts, News channels

    Received: 05 Mar 2024; Accepted: 05 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Alwazna and Al Hamed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Rafat Alwazna, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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