La selección de contenidos y la política de traducción en BBC Mundo y BBC Brasil: un análisis estadístico descriptivo

Sara de Albornoz-Domínguez

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v14n1a06

Authors

Sara de Albornoz-Domínguez University of Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v14n1a06

Keywords:

news translation, gatekeeping, content analysis, Latin America, Brazil

Abstract

The evolution of technologies and the globalization processes of the last few decades have consolidated a communication industry dominated by a small number of news producers with an ever growing power. These great media conglomerates usually offer digital content in several languages, adapted to regional audiences. In this context, the case of the bbc is paradigmatic, as it is in part publicly funded. This article aims to understand how the gatekeeping and translation policies of the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the bbc for Latin America are put into action, what is their connection to the English website, and how independent are those versions in terms of content or adaptation to the target audience. It consists of a descriptive statistical content analysis of bbc Mundo and bbc Brasil websites, from a sample collected between the 14^th of November 2016 and the 1^st of January 2017. Results seem to show that the bbc World Service websites for South America have their own gatekeeping policies and adapt their contents to the target audiences.

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Author Biography

Sara de Albornoz-Domínguez, University of Oviedo

BA in History (University of Oviedo, 2005) and Translation and Interpreting (University of Granada, 2008). She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the translation policies of the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the BBC within the framework of the research line on European languages, cultures and literatures and their diasporas of the PhD program in Humanistic Research at the University of Oviedo.

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