Language Variation and Multimodality in Audiovisual Translation : A New Framework of Analysis / Dora Renna

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renna, Dora, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Audiovisual Tanslation.

Audiovisuelle Translation.

Language Variation.

Linguistics.

Linguistik.

Sprachvariation.

Local Subjects:

Audiovisual Tanslation.

Audiovisuelle Translation.

Language Variation.

Linguistics.

Linguistik.

Sprachvariation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2021

Biography/History:

Dora Renna is a postdoctoral fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and an adjunct professor of English at the University of Verona. She has published scientific papers and book chapters for a number of international publications and has extensive experience in English Language teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is also a member of the editorial board of the indexed journal of English and American studies Iperstoria. Her main research interests are Audiovisual Translation, Multimodality, Corpus Linguistics and Corpus-based Translation Studies, Applied Linguistics, ESP. She has published the co-edited volume "Translating Boundaries. Limits, Constraints, Opportunities. Foreword by Jeremy Munday" with Stefanie Barschdorf (ibidem Press 2018).

Summary:

Society is characterized by a constant flow of multimodal products, which increasingly blur the lines between screen and reality, and audiovisual translation allows overcoming geographical and linguistic frontiers between small realities across the planet. However, research has long struggled to adapt its methodologies to effectively analyze such phenomena, and even more to scale its results through larger corpus analyses. Dora Renna proposes a pioneering framework, informed by the latest trends in audiovisual translation and multimodality and fit to achieve the complex task of operatively including multimodality in a rigorous corpus analysis of source and target versions of films characterized by language variation as a key element of character design. While language is at the core of her analysis, its role in the broader audiovisual context is explored thanks to a solid network of relations that shed light on linguistic and translational choices as well as on their implications. Framework and methodology are explained in detail and thoroughly applied to the case study to show how this perspective contributes to move a step forward in corpus-based audiovisual translation studies. The results obtained are unexpected and urge readers to overcome old attitudes towards audiovisual translation and multimodal corpora.

Contents:

Intro

Content

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1 Accepting challenges in audiovisual translation

1.1 Overcoming prescriptive approaches in AVT

1.2 Expanding the scope with corpora

1.3 Recognising language variation and its role in AVT

1.4 Incorporating multimodality in AVT studies

Chapter 2 A framework for corpus-based, multimodal analysis of language variation in source and target films

2.1 Inside the source text I: language, power and variation

2.2 Inside the source text II: defining Chicano English

2.3 Defining the corpus: time frame, data availability, relevance and coherence

2.4 The framework and its application

Chapter 3 Broadened horizons: framework application and results

3.1 Language variation in source and target films: the textual dimension

3.2 Language and multimodality: the diegetic dimension

3.3 An invitation to contextualization: the sociocultural dimension and some considerations on the overall results

Conclusion

References.

Other Format:

Print version: Renna, Dora Language Variation and Multimodality in Audiovisual Translation

ISBN:

3-8382-7594-2

OCLC:

1285781750

Publisher Number:

9783838275949