More than words: a multimodal analytical framework for studying the subtitling of swearwords

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Siwen Lu
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Abstract

This study aims to adopt existing methodologies to build a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)-based multimodal analytical framework capable of analysing swearing and its subtitling in their full multimodal context. The proposed framework offers tools to investigate how the communicative meanings of swearing are constructed through the interaction between different elements in different modes, and the effects of the retention and modification of the intermodal relations on subtitled films. This study finds that swearing is constructed multimodally through three metafunctional levels. Although the original swearwords are mostly omitted or changed to be less offensive in the Chinese subtitles, most communicative meanings of swearing can be inferred from the complementary relation between subtitles and the elements in the spoken and mise-en-scène modes. The study concludes that the focus of subtitle translation analysis should not be on what is lost in the target texts but on the contributions of different elements in different modes and their intermodal relations as well as how individual translation techniques work in a multimodal environment.
不止于词:一个研究脏话字幕的多模态分析框架
本研究旨在采用现有的方法,建立一个基于系统功能语言学(SFL)的多模态分析框架,能够在完整的多模态语境下分析咒骂及其字幕。本文所提出的框架为探讨脏话的交际意义是如何通过不同模式下不同元素之间的相互作用而构建的,以及多式联运关系的保留和修改对字幕电影的影响提供了工具。本研究发现,咒骂是通过三个元功能层面进行多模态构建的。虽然中文字幕中的粗口大多被省略或删减,但大部分粗口的交际意义都可以从字幕与口语和现场字幕元素的互补关系中推断出来。研究认为,字幕翻译分析的重点不应放在译文中丢失了什么,而应放在不同模式下不同要素的贡献及其多式联运关系上,以及在多模式环境下,个别翻译技巧如何发挥作用。
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CiteScore
3.30
自引率
7.70%
发文量
67
期刊介绍: Perspectives: Studies in Translatology encourages studies of all types of interlingual transmission, such as translation, interpreting, subtitling etc. The emphasis lies on analyses of authentic translation work, translation practices, procedures and strategies. Based on real-life examples, studies in the journal place their findings in an international perspective from a practical, theoretical or pedagogical angle in order to address important issues in the craft, the methods and the results of translation studies worldwide. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology is published quarterly, each issue consisting of approximately 80 pages. The language of publication is English although the issues discussed involve all languages and language pairs.
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