Setting the cultural agenda for domestic readers: A corpus analysis of news translation in Culture Weekly

Drawing on the notion of cultural translation and agenda-setting theory, this study examines role that plays in facilitating cross-linguistic cross-cultural communication within context news translation. It is based a case Culture Weekly —a four-page section published every Monday Reference News , most widely circulated daily newspaper China. This analyzes comparable corpus Chinese articles from their English-language versions various media outlets between February March 2022. The finds mainly used strategies acculturation literal it set agenda for its domestic readers by highlighting particular issues disseminating certain values. provides insight into how translation, as form recontextualization, strikes delicate balance accuracy acceptability mediates source target cultures institutional setting. resulting reflects editorial attitudes outlet toward manifests relationship readership.