Audiovisual translation as orchestration of multimodal synergies

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-01-28 DOI:10.1075/target.19163.jin

Yi Jing

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This study explores the coordination between subtitles and other semiotic resources in films, from within a systemic functional semiotic framework. The paper focuses on the subtitling of interjections (e.g., ‘oh’, ‘wow’, ‘yay’) to examine how subtitles are synthesized in films with respect to the presence of facial expressions and/or bodily gestures which might be perceived as conveying similar meanings. The analysis of multiple versions of intralingual subtitles of two English-language films shows that the seemingly random omission of soundtrack interjections from subtitles is patterned to a considerable degree – those interjections which are concurrent with semiotically correlated actions were frequently omitted. The findings suggest that subtitling is a complex process involving synergy between subtitles and other semiotic resources, which calls for interdisciplinary research integrating translation, multimodality, and linguistics.

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视听翻译是多模态协同作用的协调

本研究从系统功能符号学框架出发，探讨电影中字幕与其他符号学资源之间的协调关系。本文重点研究了感叹词的字幕(例如，“哦”，“哇”，“耶”)，以研究如何在电影中合成与面部表情和/或身体姿势相关的字幕，这些表情和/或身体姿势可能被认为传达了类似的意思。通过对两部英语电影的多版本语内字幕的分析，可以发现字幕中原声感叹词的省略在很大程度上是模仿性的——那些与符号学相关的动作同时发生的感叹词经常被省略。研究结果表明，字幕翻译是一个复杂的过程，涉及字幕与其他符号资源的协同作用，需要翻译、多模态和语言学的跨学科研究。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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