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Title: Al Jazeera’s Para-Textual Reframing of The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs Coverage of The 2022 Russian-Ukrainian War

 

Vol. 11(3), 2023, pp. 183-206.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46687/RQTH4999.  

 

Author: Karina AlOteibi

About the author: Karina AlOteibi is an MA holder in Audiovisual and Mass Media Translation at the Applied Science Private University.  Her main areas of interest include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and translation studies.

E-mail: karinaoteibi1990@hotmail.com 

 

Author: Assoc. Prof. Ahmad S Haider, PhD

About the author: Ahmad S Haider is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Translation at the Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Canterbury/ New Zealand. His current research focuses on how political events are socially, discursively, and linguistically represented in media, combining Corpus Linguistics and (Critical) Discourse Analysis. His main areas of interest include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and translation studies. Dr. Haider has built different large Arabic and English corpora. He professionally masters different Corpus Linguistic software packages.

e-mail: a_haidar@asu.edu.jo

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-201X

 

Author: Assoc. Prof. Hadeel AlSaed, PhD

About the author: Hadeel AlSaed is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Translation at Applied Science Private University (ASU). Dr. Saed received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Methods of Teaching English from the University of Jordan in 2012. Her main areas of interest include second-language learning, first-language learning, translation studies, socio-linguistics, syntax, and phonetics. Dr. Saed has published many research articles in prestigious journals.

e-mail: h_alsaed@asu.edu.jo

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6833-2165

 

Link: http://silc.fhn-shu.com/issues/2023-3/SILC_2023_Vol_11_Issue_3_183-206_24.pdf

Citation (APA style): AlOteibi, K, Haider, A.S. & AlSaed, H. (2023). Al Jazeera’s para-textual reframing of The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs coverage of the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian War. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 11(3), 183-206. https://doi.org/10.46687/RQTH4999.

 

Abstract: The Russian-Ukrainian War, which began in February 2022, has recently become a trend and attracted the attention of different news agencies. This paper examines the paratextual components of ten news articles on the Russian-Ukrainian War. The source articles are extracted from The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs, while the Arabic translation is retrieved from Al Jazeera website. In this paper, the narrative theory is adopted (Baker, 2018) since it is a dynamic and flexible approach that emphasizes the role of translators and interpreters as active participants in constructing reality. The English articles with their Arabic counterparts were compared, and the parts that were paratextually reframed in the translated versions were identified. Investigating how Al Jazeera reframed the Russian-Ukrainian War through translation, Al Jazeera appears to sometimes create different, diverse, and contradictory versions of the narrative. This may result in various and, sometimes, different views of the same story. The findings showed that the paratextual framing strategies utilized by Al Jazeera to reframe the Russian-Ukrainian War include titles, subheadings, introductions, and footnotes. The paper concludes that the war is framed in the source texts in line with the source media outlets‘ agenda and is then reframed in the target language through translation. The entire process might affect how the target audience views the event under study.

Keywords: Russian-Ukrainian War, translation, paratextual framing, Al Jazeera, titles

 

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