Between text and image : updating research in screen translation / edited by Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss, Chiara Bucaria.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bucaria, Chiara.

Chiaro, Delia, 1953-

Heiss, Christine.

Series:

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries ; v. 78.

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries, 0929-7316 ; v. 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dubbing of motion pictures.

Dubbing of television programs.

Motion pictures--Titling.

Motion pictures.

Television programs--Titling.

Television programs.

Physical Description:

x, 292 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past decade interest in research on screen translation has increased sharply while at the same time fast moving technological breakthroughs are continually modifying and renewing both products and well-established methods of linguistic mediation. Thus, as more scholars choose to devote their energies to investigating this multi-faceted field, there is an ever-growing need to map out where the discipline stands and where it is going in terms of research.This book sets out to establish the state of the art of this ever expanding field and at the same time to underscore the work of scholars following new paths of investigation both in terms of innovative linguistic mediations being examined and pioneering experimental design. The volume includes descriptions of sophisticated electronic databases and corpora of audiovisual products for the big and small screen, and the rationale behind them, e.g. how they are created and programmed for querying; technical limitations; homogeneity in querying languages. Furthermore, Between Text and Image also includes a number of cutting edge studies in audience perception of audiovisual products, i.e. empirically based viewer centred studies which are still rare yet essential if we wish to gain a thorough understanding of the field. Finally, the volume does not fail to ignore examples of original research carried out from both a traditional linguistic viewpoint and from a more cultural perspective.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Audiovisual translation comes of age

Recent developments and challenges in audiovisual translation research

Part 1. Electronic databases and corpora

ICT approaches

Forlixt 1 – The Forlì Corpus of Screen Translation: Exploring macrostructures

Forlixt 1 – The Forlì Corpus of Screen Translation: Exploring microstructures

New tools for translators: INTCA, an electronic dictionary of interjections

Linguistic approaches

Spoken language in film dubbing: Target language norms, interference and translational routines

High felicity: A speech act approach to quality assessment in subtitling

Inserts in modern script-writing and their translation into Spanish

Part 2. Perception and quality

Empirical approaches

The perception of dubbese: An Italian study

Acceptance of the norm or suspension of disbelief? The case of formulaic language in dubbese

Measuring the perception of the screen translation of Un Posto al Sole : A cross-cultural study

Cultural and psycholinguistic approaches

Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian

From darkness to light in subtitling

Subtitles and line-breaks: Towards improved readability

Socio-economic approaches

The localization of promotional discourse on the internet

Issues of quality in screen translation: Problems and solutions

References

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-283) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [285]-287.

ISBN:

9786612105159

9781282105157

1282105159

9789027291103

9027291101