Translator journalist or journalist translator? The translational activity as a cultural representation

Abstract

This article aims to present the translational activity within the journalistic field, establishing the interface proposed by Zipser (2002) in which the journalist becomes a translator of facts, above all. Based, on the one hand, on Nord’s functionalist proposal (1991) to contemplate the translation concept, and, on the other, on Esser’s model (1998), which organizes the constitutive factors of journalism, we intend to show how a piece of news is prospectively constructed, i.e., from a source fact forward its reader.

Keywords

• tradução
• jornalismo
• representação cultural
• funcionalismo nordiano