A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Decision-Making in Subtitling

✍ Scribed by Łukasz Bogucki

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 114
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Introduction (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 1-7
Relevance in Secondary Communication (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 9-20
The Nature of Subtitling (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 21-34
Towards a Relevance-Theoretic Model of Decision-Making in Subtitling (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 35-51
Application of the Model (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 53-91
Conclusion (Łukasz Bogucki)....Pages 93-97
Back Matter ....Pages 99-112

✦ Subjects

Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Media and Communication; Literature, general; Digital/New Media; Audio-Visual Culture