Overview
Provides a critical study of recent approaches to Relevance Theory from a linguistic and communicative angle
Bridges the divide between translation theory and practice by taking a fresh look at subtitling from a language perspective
Positions captioning (subtitling) within its context on the broader scale of audiovisual translation
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About this book
This book aims to investigate the process of decision-making in subtitling of feature films and entertainment series. The author uses Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson,1986) to argue that the technical, linguistic and translational constraints at work in subtitling result in a curtailed target text, and illustrates this argument by invoking examples drawn from the English-Polish subtitles of films and television series available through the subscription service Netflix. After introducing the current state of research on audiovisual translation within and outside the framework of translation studies, he presents the core concepts underpinning Relevance Theory and explains how it can be used to construct a model of the process of subtitling. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of translation studies, audiovisual translation studies, and communication studies.
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About the author
Łukasz Bogucki is Full Professor and Head of the Institute of English Studies and Department of Translation Studies and Language Pedagogy at the University of Łódź, Poland. He has been involved in researching and teaching translation since 1993 and audiovisual translation since 2001, making him one of the pioneers of this dynamic sub-discipline within Translation Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Decision-Making in Subtitling
Authors: Łukasz Bogucki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51803-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51802-8Published: 14 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51803-5Published: 13 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 112
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Media and Communication, Literature, general, Digital/New Media, Audio-Visual Culture