La traducción política en contextos institucionales (EN-FR-ES). El caso del discurso de investidura de Biden

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyse the translation of Joe R. Biden’s inaugural address into French and Spanish in order to describe the translation procedures employed when translating the pragmatic, discursive and rhetoric aspects inherent to presidential genres from the source text to the target text, following the theoretical framework of authors such as Austermühl (2014) in institutional contexts. To do so, we have used corpus management and qualitative analysis tools which have served as a basis for undertaking a more complex study of contrastive nature in which we have compared the categories of Political Discourse Analysis previously defined by other researchers. Results confirm that in both French and Spanish different translation strategies are employed in order to translate the rhetoric of political speeches, and that neither translated version has been ideologically oriented.