Mediating across languages and cultures: economics and finance as popular science in translation

This paper identifies the features of popular science economics and finance as forms of recontextualisation and reconceptualisation by comparing and contrasting the English language of popularisation with that of official sources of economic and financial information. The strategies for the translation of newspapers and magazine articles into Italian are then investigted to establish to what extent they mediate content across language and culture. The distinctive features of popular economics and finance discourse as opposed to economic reports in English are explored with a view to assessing whether they are also found in Italian when the language of translations of newspaper/magazine articles is compared with that of Italian sources of economic and financial information while bearing in mind cultural differences.