Open AccessTowards two decades of journalistic translation research (2000-2019): a corpus-based bibliometric study of the Translation Studies Bibliography
Author(s) -
Yuan Ping
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
meta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1492-1421
pISSN - 0026-0452
DOI - 10.7202/1083185ar
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , corpus linguistics , translation studies , linguistics , bibliometrics , noun , translation (biology) , computer science , library science , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , pure mathematics , gene
This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of journalistic translationresearch (JTR) from the past two decades. It is based on a corpus of 396 entries onjournalistic translation and interpreting from the Translation StudiesBibliography (TSB) between 2000 and 2019. This study first consists of abibliometric analysis of these entries from the aspects of author/editor, year,language, type, journal and publisher. It then explores prominent research topicsand areas of focus based both on keywords provided by annotated entries in the TSBand on keywords and high-frequency nouns extracted from the abstracts as a result ofcorpus analysis. The study elaborates on various methodological approaches tostudying journalistic translation according to the keywords provided in the entriesof the TSB. The study found that: (1) most of the JTR was published by prestigiousjournals and publishers in English around 2010; (2) multimedia news aboutsocio-cultural issues, published on various platforms, attracted the most attentionfrom scholars; and (3) socio-cultural approaches have been the most prominent typeof approach to journalistic translation over the past two decades. JTR researchtrends are also predicated according to the current development of thefield.