Subtitling norms for television
Subtitle: an exploration focussing on extralinguistic cultural references
By: Jan Pedersen
Series: Benjamins translation library : EST subseries -- v. 98; Benjamins translation library -- v. 98.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789027224460; 9789027283924
Subjects: Television programs; Mass media and language; Discourse analysis; Translating and interpreting; Titling; Language and culture
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.