Spike Lee's bamboozled : a contrastive analysis of compliments and insults from English into Italian / by Sara Corrizzato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrizzato, Sara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Translating into Italian.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book compares the original version of the screenplay of the film Bamboozled (2000) with the Italian dubbed text, offering an analysis of forty-four compliments and forty-four insults. In order to provide a comparative study of the expressive speech acts in both versions, the book includes all the examples of such language use in the film. After a brief presentation of the main linguistic features of African American English and a short introduction to audiovisual language and to the relevance of audiovisual translation in the field of Translation Studies, every speech act in both versions

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7399-3

OCLC:

901286598