How subtitling professionals perceive changes in working conditions

IF 1 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Translation and Interpreting Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1075/tis.20107.kun

Alexander Künzli

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Abstract

The job of a subtitler is undergoing significant changes. This study investigates subtitling professionals’ perceptions of the effects these changes are having on their working conditions. With this aim in mind, an email interview study was conducted with nineteen freelance subtitling professionals producing German-language subtitles. Overall themes in the subtitlers’ accounts were disillusion with recent trends in the subtitling profession (the precarization of the subtitling profession, acceleration of production processes, virtualization of collaboration), concerns about quality (unavailable or low-quality working materials, market entry of unskilled subtitlers, replacement of established local subtitling guidelines by international ones, machine translation), but also opportunities (predictability, solidarity among subtitling professionals). Suggestions for future directions concern longitudinal studies to evaluate the effects changes in professional subtitling practice have on working conditions over time with follow-up surveys to collect subtitlers’ opinions on how the problems identified could best be tackled.

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字幕专业人员如何看待工作条件的变化

字幕员的工作正在发生重大变化。这项研究调查了字幕专业人士对这些变化对他们工作条件的影响的看法。考虑到这一目标，对19名制作德语字幕的自由字幕专业人员进行了电子邮件采访研究。字幕作者叙述中的总体主题对字幕行业的最新趋势（字幕行业的预制化、生产流程的加速、合作的虚拟化）感到失望，对质量的担忧（无法获得或质量低的工作材料，非熟练字幕师进入市场，用国际字幕指南取代既定的本地字幕指南，机器翻译），还有机会（可预测性，字幕专业人员之间的团结）。对未来方向的建议涉及纵向研究，以评估专业字幕实践的变化对工作条件的影响，并进行后续调查，收集字幕制作者对如何最好地解决所发现的问题的意见。

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期刊介绍： Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal designed to disseminate knowledge and research relevant to all areas of language mediation. TIS seeks to address broad, common concerns among scholars working in various areas of Translation and Interpreting Studies, while encouraging sound empirical research that could serve as a bridge between academics and practitioners. The journal is also dedicated to facilitating communication among those who may be working on related subjects in other fields, from Comparative Literature to Information Science. Finally, TIS is a forum for the dissemination in English translation of relevant scholarly research originally published in languages other than English. TIS is the official journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).