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Introducing the Thesis

This thesis overview is designed to present a discourse analysis study on multiLinguol media translation. It explores how language shapes meaning across contexts.

What is Hate-Motivated Translation? This study examines how some multiLinguol media coverage of Rwanda’s 2025 Kwibuka presidential address reshaped political speech into hostile or revisionist narratives.

Discourse Analysis: Tracking Hidden Hate Across Translation

A sharp analytical lens that uncovers how meaning shifts across languages, revealing subtle distortions and exposing hate embedded within translation.

General Introduction

This chapter establishes the study’s framework by situating it within post-genocide discourse and translation ethics. It identifies the core issue—ideologically driven distortion in translated media—and justifies its examination in light of political, ethical, and memorial implications.

It outlines the study’s objectives, research questions, and hypothesis, while highlighting its contribution to translation studies, media accountability, and genocide memory.

The chapter also defines key limitations, ensuring a realistic yet focused scope, before transitioning to the literature review.

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Literaure Review

Special thanks to Dr Joseph (University of Rwanda) for his invaluable guidance in sourcing rare and up-to-date discourse analysis documentation. Special thanks to Parliament Translators as well.

The literature review examines existing scholarship on translation, discourse analysis, and media representation. It identifies key theories and debates, highlighting how meaning can be shaped or distorted across languages.

It also reveals gaps in current research, positioning this study within ongoing academic discussions.

Methodology

Data were collected using a corpus-informed qualitative approach based on 5 documented case studies across 7 media platforms.

The cases were selected through discourse-based sampling and theoretical saturation.

This chapter therefore lays the groundwork for a critical and empirically informed analysis of translation as a site of ideological struggle and discursive reengineering, setting the stage for the analytical tools applied to identify findings and interpretations presented in the chapters that follow.

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Data Presentation, Analysis and Discussion

Analysis relied on Discourse Analysis (DA) and integrated tools from translation and memory studies.

Three original analytical tools were developed:

(1) Semantic-Tactical Mapping (STM), to detect ideological shifts between original and translated texts;

(2) Headline Reframing Index (HRI), to assess distortions in media headlines; and Terminological Integrity Grid (TIG), to evaluate the ideological accuracy of genocide-related terms.

(3) Terminological Integrity Grid (TIG) to assess distortions in media headlines; to evaluate the ideological accuracy of genocide-related terms.

This research presents original analytical tools—STM, HRI, and TIG—for identifying translational manipulations.

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