BBC Online Research Articles

Deciphering linguistic and cultural hurdles‎ in ‎English-Arabic media translation: Insights from the BBC ‎online news articles

Media language encompasses literary and ‎scientific elements, technical terminology, and cultural references. Effectively conveying its message to the target audience from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds can be challenging. This highlights some of the subtleties of media language that might add to translation difficulties. Media translation is a complex process, which involves information, knowledge, and analysis from a wide range of disciplines, including art, economics, literature, politics and science. In translating media content, accuracy in communicating cultural allusions, technical terms, and nuances ‎ to the intended audience is equally crucial as translating plain text from one language to another. This study explores the linguistic and cultural barriers that may occur while translating English-Arabic online media, with a focus on findings from BBC Online News articles. It attempts to further contribute to a deeper understanding of media translation by focusing on bridging the linguistic and cultural divide while translating English to Arabic in online media. The results of this study suggest that a translator with advanced ‎proficiency and a thorough comprehension of the subtle linguistic and cultural ‎differences that exist ‎in both languages is required to provide high-quality ‎English to Arabic translation. In other ‎‎words, skilled translators who can ‎understand and incorporate the linguistic and cultural quirks of both ‎‎languages, creating a seamless connection ‎between the translation and media ‎domains, are essential for efficient media translation.

ПРОСТОРОВА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ МУЛЬТИМОДАЛЬНИХ НОВИННИХ ТЕКСТІВ (на матеріалі онлайн-новин служб BBC та CNN)

The article highlights some specific features of the BBC and CNN online news texts location on the corresponding web pages. The effective arrangement of the news content boosts readers’ perception and willingness to deal with the information provided by the multinational news channels BBC and CNN. To properly analyze the message positioning, one has to consider the spacing methods, i.e. margins, padding, the width of the text, interlines intervals, text alignment (from left to right text-align – horizontal one, from top to bottom or vice versa text-align – vertical one, diagonal or free text-align), the necessary graphemes or lexemes span, text segmenting. The BBC news texts placement depends directly on the topics being covered. Within the scopes of HOME, NEWS, SPORT sections and all their subsections the news content is aligned in the left part of the web page, the “white space” includes the peculiar margin and interline interval. All of these help break the massive texts down into logical meaningful segments to alleviate the information perception, analysis and remembering. The WORKLIFE, TRAVEL, FUTURE, CULTURE section texts are center-aligned with equal margins and specific initial letter design and represent the popular science and entertainment content. The majority of the CNN news texts is located in the left web page segment and is horizontally aligned with the white space after a series of syntagmas. The CNN Style texts are center-aligned and the first three lines of each message are indented so as to place the initial letter of the first word encompassing those lines. To conclude, the BBC and CNN news texts spacing goes in line with pragmatic and stylistic character of the news content, graphic and design facilities make the texts readable, interface uncluttered and provide an overall aesthetically pleasing experience. All of these add additional value to the meaning potentials generated through the integration of both verbal and non-verbal modes.

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN INDONESIAN ONLINE NEWS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The article concerns a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of women as subjects of violence in Indonesia during the current Corona Virus 19 (COVID19) pandemic. Through the framework of critical discourse analysis, it aims to determine how news online presents an overview and perspectives on the problem of women who experience intimate partner violence during the current pandemic. The research design chosen is qualitative research with the tools of content analysis. Critical discourse analysis describes the language employed to convey meaning in the content of BBC news online. While the BBC's online news online highlighted the existence of gender symmetry and stereotype abusers throughout the epidemic experienced by women, the BBC's online news online was able and daring enough to highlight the marginalization of women.

A cognitive approach to metaphor translation in business texts

Abstract A metaphor is normally deployed for specific rhetorical and aesthetic functions. However, in the commercial context, metaphor usage displays specific communicative functions as exhibited in the English business texts we sampled for this study. We examine the translation of business metaphor from English into Arabic with a special focus on the game/sports source domain. The authors collected a sample of metaphors from business articles which appear on the BBC, CNN, and Project Syndicate online websites. We use the collected business metaphors to determine the contextual functions as well as the significance and roles each metaphor plays in its context. We adopt the cognitive approach to metaphor analysis in order to identify the level of conceptual systems in the source and target metaphorical references. We have found out that the generic metaphorical instances are translated using the formal translation method while the more business context specific metaphors are simplified, paraphrased, or explicated.

An Analysis of Using Emotive Language on BBC Online World News Articles: a Semantics Study

This study investigates the emotive language found on BBC online world news articles. The objectives of this study are to find out the kinds of emotive lexicon and to analyze the meaning of emotive lexicon by using semantics study. To discover the statements of the problem, this study uses the theory of Johnson-laird & Keith Oatley (1989) to identify the kinds of emotive lexicon and for the meaning of lexicon in conceptual or denotative meaning following the theory of Geoffrey Leech (1981). This study used 20 selected news articles from 4 different topics which are Business, Science and Environment, Health, and Stories on BBC World News via the website as the main data. This study used qualitative research method. Through the analysis, this study found out that there are different kinds of emotive lexicon shown in each topic through the five basic of emotional modes which are “happiness”, “sadness”, “fear”, “anger”, and “disgust”. There are 14 lexicons discovered in Business topic with 5 different kinds of the emotive lexicon, 14 lexicons in Science and Environment topic with 4 kinds of emotive lexicon, 11 lexicons shown in Health topic with 4 kinds of emotive lexicon, and 34 emotive lexicons found in Stories topic with 6 main kinds of emotive lexicon which also becomes the highest amount of the emotive lexicon written of all four topics. Moreover, the use of emotive language found in news articles can be distinctive in every topic in news, not only for the number of emotive lexicons used but also the categories of the emotion word that can help the writers in conveying the emotion or the feeling to the readers through their writings.Keywords: Emotive Language, Semantics, Denotative Meaning, News Article

Critical discourse analysis of BBC and CNN political news’ headlines on the Christchurch Mosque Massacre in New Zealand

Abstract This study aims at investigating the language of politics in news headlines regarding the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective to examine how power and ideology reside in texts. The data of this study consist of 39 headlines extracted from the BBC and CNN online news agencies. The data were analyzed utilizing the socio-cultural approach of Fairclough (2013). Representative examples were discussed in terms of the three stages of Fairclough’s approach. The results of the study revealed that the reporters tended to use the passive voice structure in headlines that describe the attacker in conformance with the New Zealand policy, which states that his identity should not be revealed. However, they used the active voice structure while referring to the victims, their families, and the New Zealanders at large in order to emphasize their way of dealing with the attack. In addition, the role of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in her legal capacity was highlighted by shedding light on her pronouncements to fight against terrorism. It was also found that the use of the metaphor as a figurative device entails that terrorism is a rare phenomenon in New Zealand.

British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with former and current senior BBC editors and journalists. The research finds that BBC coverage in the pre-referendum period was closely tied to major events – such as summits – and elite party conflict. These patterns in coverage were primarily a consequence of the lack of traditional news values inherent in most EU stories and the impact of the wider political and media landscape. The consequence of these patterns in coverage was to present audiences with a restricted, negative and largely conflictual picture of Britain's relationship with the EU which is likely to have fuelled rather than inhibited the growth of Euroscepticism.

Transitivity Analysis of BBC and CNN Political News’ Headlines about Christchurch Mosque Massacre in New Zealand: A Stylistic Perspective

The present study aims at investigating the style of reporting in the political news headlines. It deals with the headlines that tackle the issue of the Christchurch Mosque Massacre in New Zealand, 2019 from two Western news agencies, namely BBC and CNN online websites. The objective of this study is to illustrate how a reader can capture the experience by attending to the author’s style and linguistic choices. The data of the study was collected, classified, segmented, and further analysed in terms of the six types of processes of Halliday’s (2004) transitivity system to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The results showed that the verbal processes dominate the other types of processes, which helps at putting thoughts into words. It was also found that the style of modeling verbal experiences in news reporting serves to facilitate the attribution of the given information to authentic sources i.e. officials and eyewitnesses. However, other types of processes such as: material and mental processes are stylistically used in order to construe quantum of changes in the physical world and in the world of consciousness. While the behavioral processes help the news’ reporters to make sense of human physical actions or reactions towards the event that are psychologically motivated..

Countdown to a Pandemic: BBC News representation of the response to COVID-19 as a global crisis approached

Since COVID-19 peaked in Europe and in the USA in April 2020 there has been much speculation on the degree of complacency in the West, in terms of its own health system preparedness. I argue that a crucial factor was a socio- cognitive bias in which the media reported uncritically that we were well prepared. This was largely unchanged from SARS almost two decades earlier.This paper compares discourse analysis of Western media coverage of SARS in 2003-4 with the BBC’s representation of COVID-19, prior to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration of a global pandemic in March 2020. It investigates the geopolitical and socio-cultural factors which may have contributed to the differences and similarities between these two periods of uncertainty. A corpus of 238 BBC online news articles that were published in the month after the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern were collated between February 22nd and March 17th 2020. A combination of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis identifies traces of the underlying assumptions that shaped the media’s approach. Many aspects of the BBC’s coverage of COVID-19 conform closely with the Western media’s treatment of SARS. This includes China’s alleged culpability and Western countries’ priority to protect themselves from a foreign virus. Journalists unconsciously othered the virus itself, linguistically and rhetorically, assuming it was for them and not us. Articles invariably drew on evidence that supported this narrative, albeit from reputable sources such as the WHO, and largely ignored perspectives that challenged it. This remained the case even as the epicentre of the crisis shifted from China to Continental Europe.

Semantic Roles in Joko Widodo Re-Elected as President of BBC Online News

This research focused in analyzing the types and the dominant of Semantic Roles that found in Joko Widodo re-elected as President in BBC Online News (2019). The research design of this study is descriptive qualitative. This research used Riemer (2010) theory. The data source of this research was “Joko Widodo re-elected as President” in BBC Online News which was taken from the internet. The method in collecting the data of this research was observation with non-participatory technique by using the transcript. The conclusion was the eight types of semantic roles can be found of Joko Widodo re-elected as President in BBC Online. These data had been collected, the researcher found 10 data that produce 24 results of semantics roles which were involved into eight (8) types, such as; agent (3), patient (2), theme (5), location (2), experiencer (4), instruments (3), goal (2), and source (3) as the results. Also, the dominant types of the semantic roles that frequently appeared was theme and the least was patient, location, and goal.
 Keywords : Semantic, News, Types of Semantic Roles.

FRAMING ANALYSIS PEMBERITAAN AKSI PENEMBAKAN MUSLIM CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND DI MEDIA ONLINE BBC

In this article, the authors chose to do a framing analysis built by western media in the Muslim shootings that took place in New Zealand. The media that the authors of the analysis are online media, BBC. After framing the author found several facts that, the BBC media always tuck in every beginning of the headline (which is related to the event) by using the sentence Christchurch Shootings. The BBC media also picked up a story of a hero in Naaem Rashid, one of the victims who fought against the shooter before being killed. This media also criticized several policies on the legality of possession of firearms in New Zealand and criticism of several social media that ‘already’ broadcasted videos containing shooting content and delays in some of the social media in removing videos thathad spread. BBC media did not mention that this act was an act of terrorism or even called Brenton Tarrant - the Actor of the Shooting - as a terrorist. In fact, this media does not mention the issue of religion which is one of the motives for the shooting carried out by Brenton. The media also did not mention victims based on their religion. This shows that the BBC media does not want to bring up the religious issue which is one of the factors in the shooting.Keywords: Christchurch Shooting, BBC online media, Framing

An Invisible Nation? The BBC and English-language Arts Television in Wales

The history of the BBC's regional programming is one of perennial tension between representing and reflecting the diversity of the UK's nations and regions and what is often perceived as an unrelenting ‘metropolitan centricity’. Through charting the mixed fortunes of English-language arts television for and about Wales, this article examines how the narrow range of cultural representation available on BBC television is situated within a public service broadcasting strategy that continues to regard regional arts as inherently ‘provincial’ and as such, inferior to that of London. The data and analysis presented derives from a broader study based on 21 qualitative interviews conducted with key figures directly involved in the production and commissioning of arts content across the BBC's television, radio and online services. The accounts provided by these interviewees are also contextualised by analysis of broadcasting policy and internal BBC documents, including annual yearbooks and reports. The article concludes by arguing that if the BBC is to reflect more adequately the true diversity of the UK's nations and regions and the distinct arts and cultures constituted within them, it must start by devolving its commissioning powers more equally. Rather than merely shifting centralisation from London to allocated ‘centres of excellence’ such as Scotland in the case of arts broadcasting, an effective public service arts proposition should strive to give greater autonomy and agency to the nations and regions so that they might build their arts strategies in their own image as opposed to that of the capital.

DISPHEMISMS AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS IN BBC ONLINE NEWS TEXTS (DISFEMISME DAN TERJEMAHANNYA PADA TEKS BERITA BBC ONLINE)

This research was aimed at identifying the uses of disfemism on BBC Online news texts at the level of grammatical units and describing their backgrounds as well as analyzing their forms and qualities of translations, particularly from the aspect of acceptability in Indonesian language. The method used for analysis was content analysis with disfemism on BBC Online news texts as the object of analysis. The data were in the forms of linguistic units of the news texts containing disfemism. The data were then analyzed by using referential comparison technique with semantic and translation approach to understand the meanings of disfemism and pragmatic comparison for analyzing the backgrounds.The results show that the grammatical units of disfemism on BBC Online news texts were at the levels words, phrases, and clauses. In addition, no significant change of form was found in the translations.There were found 10 different reasons underlying the uses of disfemism on BBC Online news texts. Meanwhile, dealing with the acceptability, most of the translations of disfemism can be counted as acceptable

Stylistic Awareness to Analyze and Comprehend Authentic Discourse in Language Classrooms

Stylistic awareness of a text-the knowledge of syntactic, semantic, and/or pragmatic features—leads to an overall understanding of a discourse. The study will focus on the stylistics of news genre as authentic material in classrooms. The aim of this article is to draw a comparison between the language features used in online news and those used in the printed newspapers to underscore the linguistic characteristics of such media. The data to analyze will be collected from two European news media. The electronic tool will be the BBC online news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/, while the printed one will be International Herald Tribune. The purpose of this study is to highlight the linguistic variations, if they exist, between the two media. The language will be studied in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, showing how these linguistic subfields can affect the language and determine the level of complication in understanding meaning. For discourse analysis, the same theme and topic will be selected. Examples and samples from both media will be posted to display the differences of language use. The comparison will be organized and divided into three subtitles: Syntactic Differences, Pragmatic Differences, and Semantic Differences. The paper will also focus on the effect of hyperlinks on the language and how the unlimited amount of information compressed in the virtual media make the online news unique. In addition, the limitations and weaknesses of both media will be addressed to take the research a step forward in order to make teachers aware of the flaws while using these genuine objects in language classrooms.

Visibility without voice: Media witnessing irregular migrants in BBC online news journalism

ABSTRACTIn the analysis of journalistic representation of irregular migration to Europe, rather little attention is given to the variation of modes and genres of journalism. Most studies focus on text in ‘old media’ and the news genre. This article analyses affordances of different modalities and genres of online journalism in framing irregular migrants. Media framing in BBC online news coverage of a mediatised conflict in Spain, defined as a ‘migration crisis’, is analysed with multimodal social semiotics. While mediation makes global audiences witness tragedies at Europe's borders and online journalism affords more voice and deliberation for migrant sources, the frames of threat and victim dominate the news stories. Frames that depict migrants as surviving heroes who provide for their families emerge in feature genres.

The Political Consequences of Party System Change

This article engages one of the important gaps in the literature on party system effects: the consequences of party system change. We discuss how existing empirical approaches to party system change do not actually capture the changeability of patterns of party competition, which is the most direct understanding of the term “party system.” We propose a measure that does exactly this: the index of fluidity. Applying this measure to countries in South East Asia, we show that party system change is associated with harmful effects, including lower foreign direct investment and deterioration of the rule of law.Related Articles Beal, Amanda L., and Leah Graham. 2014. “.” Politics & Policy 42 (): 311‐345. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12077/abstract Lagunes, Paul F. 2012. “.” Politics & Policy 40 (): 802‐826. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2012.00384.x/abstract Luckhurst, Jonathan, and Luis Eduardo Zavala de Alba. 2012. “.” Politics & Policy 40 (): 735‐739. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2012.00388.x/abstract Related Media Cochrane, Joe. 2014. New York Times. September 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/world/asia/in‐southeast‐asia‐indonesia‐becomes‐a‐role‐model‐for‐democracy.html?_r=0 Yueh, Linda. 2014. “Rule of Law v. Rule of Party.” BBC Online. October 24. http://www.bbc.com/news/business‐29754688 Pilling, David. 2014. Financial Times. June 8. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/da2c5ee0‐779e‐11e3‐807e‐00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ZXbY2NXV

Can the NHS make the efficiency savings it needs to survive?

British Journal of NursingVol. 24, No. 14 RegularsCan the NHS make the efficiency savings it needs to survive?Alan GlasperAlan GlasperSearch for more papers by this authorAlan GlasperPublished Online:23 Jul 2015https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2015.24.14.752AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References Boffey D (2014) NHS spending on agency nurses soars past £5.5bn. Guardian online. Saturday 1 November 2014 (accessed 10 July 2015) Google ScholarDepartment of Health (2015) Review of Operational Productivity in NHS providers. DH, London Google ScholarGlasper A (2015) Can the NHS become a 7-day service for all? Br J Nurs 24(13): 706–707 Link, Google ScholarMoon JC, Flett AS, Godman BB, Grosso AM, Wierzbicki AS (2010) Getting better value from the NHS drug budget. BMJ 341: c6449 Crossref, Medline, Google ScholarMytton OT, Clarke D, Raynor M (2012) Taxing unhealthy food and drinks to improve health. BMJ 344: e2931 Crossref, Medline, Google ScholarNursing Times (2015) Buying smarter, buying safer. NursingTimes.net. http://tinyurl.com/nlhk367 (accessed 10 July 2015) Google ScholarRoyal College of Nursing (2015a) 6. Workforce planning. http://tinyurl.com/pwotsnw (accessed 10 July 2015) Google ScholarRoyal College of Nursing (2015b) Nursing shortage preventing access to crucial training, says RCN. http://tinyurl.com/bqo6yz4 (accessed 10 July 2015) Google ScholarRoyal College of Nursing (2015c) Small Changes, Big Differences. http://tinyurl.com/o6qdae4 (accessed 10 July 2015) Google ScholarScarborough P, Bhatnagar P, Wickramasinghe KK, et al. (2011) The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006–07 NHS costs. J Public Health 33(4): 527–35 Crossref, Google ScholarTriggle N (2015) Simple steps ‘could save NHS £5bn’. BBC online. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33071066 (accessed 10 July 2015) Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 23 July 2015Volume 24Issue 14ISSN (print): 0966-0461ISSN (online): 2052-2819 Metrics History Published online 23 July 2015 Published in print 23 July 2015 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

"I Want to Pump You Up!" Lance Armstrong, Alex Rodriguez, and the Biopolitics of Data- and Analogue-Flesh

"I Want to Pump You Up!" Lance Armstrong, Alex Rodriguez, and the Biopolitics of Data- and Analogue-Flesh

The search for a civic commons online: an assessment of existing BBC Online policy

Debates surrounding democracy and the internet are of central importance to the future of public service broadcasting. Some of these debates have led a group of scholars to argue for the establishment of a civic commons online, in response to the commercial nature of the internet and its limited support of deliberative democracy. General features of a civic commons online include the formation of a deliberative space free from corporate and state influence, yet that receives some form of public funding. Given their long and relatively successful history, some scholars have argued that existing public service broadcasters might provide the best chance for the establishment of such a commons. This article evaluates existing BBC Online policy in the UK in light of these arguments, and assesses the extent to which existing policy might allow space for the establishment of such a civic commons. The article concludes by arguing that while existing BBC Online policy would allow the basic grounds for the establishment of a civic commons online, there are significant obstacles to its full realization.

The Risks of Ignoring Strategic Insolvency

A moment has arrived when a great power with global responsibilities is having a crisis of confidence. Its economy has grown sluggish and it is being overtaken by a number of rising competitors. Financial pressures loom, notably the ability to keep a balance between government revenues and expenses. It is losing long-standing superioritiespsychological as well as technological and numericalin key categories of military power; this great power, whose diplomats and military leaders manage active or potential conflicts from Afghanistan to Europe with treaty alliances as far flung as Japan and Australia, confronts the need for constraints on its global ambitions and posture. This urgent reckoning has been prompted in part by a painful and largely unnecessary counterinsurgency war far from home that cost many times more than initially thought and exhausted the country's overstretched land forces.