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Abstract

This article expands on previous research on news trans-editing by examining the relationship between ideology and language. Using a conceptual framework that combines critical discourse analysis with narrative analysis, the study analyses a corpus of trans-edited news articles on the 2014 Hong Kong protests. These articles were collected from , along with their source texts from various English-language international media. Narrative analysis was conducted using NVivo computer-assisted tools, including cluster analysis, word frequency and matrix coding. The findings reveal significant shifts in the narratives between the original and trans-edited versions, indicating that the trans-editors recontextualised the news narratives by determining the narrators, retroversions and frequency of the narrative texts. These results suggest that news trans-editing is not a neutral process, but is rather influenced by the ideological stance of the news outlet.

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Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing
Journal of Language and Politics 24, 365 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22114.pin
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Keyword(s): critical discourse analysis; critical narrative analysis; Hong Kong protests; ideological shift; news narrative; Reference News

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