Subtitling norms for television : an exploration focussing on extralinguistic cultural references / Jan Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pedersen, Jan.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 98.

Benjamins translation library ; v. 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Mass media and language.

Television programs--Titling.

Television programs.

Language and culture.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 242 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2011.

Summary:

In most subtitling countries, those lines at the bottom of the screen are the most read medium of all, for which reason they deserve all the academic attention they can get. This monograph represents a large-scale attempt to provide such attention, by exploring the norms of subtitling for television. It does so by empirically investigating a large corpus of television subtitles from Scandinavia, one of the bastions of subtitling, along with other European data. The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an advanced and comprehensive model for investigating translation problems in the form of Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs). Second, to empirically explore current European television subtitling norms, and to look into future developments in this area. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in gaining access to state-of-the-art tools for translation analysis, or in learning more about the norms of subtitling, based on empirically reliable and current material.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Subtitling as audiovisual translation

Chapter 2. Norms in general and particular

Chapter 3. Extralinguistic Cultural References as translation problems

Chapter 4. Translation strategies: How it’s done

Chapter 5. Influencing parameters: Why it’s done like that

Chapter 6. Empirical subtitling norms for television

Chapter 7. Prototypical subtitling

Sources

Appendix A. The Scandinavian Subtitles Corpus

Appendix B. Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027283924 (ebook)

9789027224460 (hbk.)