Introduction

Summary

The book aims to offer an accessible introduction to news media translation as an important area of translation studies, a relatively new discipline that has witnessed an exponential growth since it first became established some fifty years ago. While initial research dedicated to translation was produced by scholars from the fields of linguistics and literary studies, as translation studies began to emerge as a discipline in its own right, it was also influenced by ideas and conceptualizations from other disciplinary areas. The scope of translation studies has increasingly widened to include not only all types of written texts but also audiovisual and multimedia products, as well as all types of interpreted communication.