scholarly journals From Translation Studies and audiovisual translation to media accessibility: Some research trends

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Aline Remael ◽  
Nina Reviers ◽  
Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

Accessible Audiovisual Translation

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Adriana Silvina Pagano ◽  
André Luiz Rosa Teixeira ◽  
Flávia Affonso Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Universal Design ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

Ever-increasing technological advances and growing demands for accessibility have been evolving new audiovisual translation practices and shaped the development of the field within the discipline of translation studies. This chapter provides a brief survey of state-of-the-art audiovisual translation practices, with particular focus on the ways growing demands for accessibility have been met within models of integration and inclusion of people with disabilities. It briefly reviews initiatives toward universal design and accessibility thinking in the preproduction of audiovisual content. Finally, audiovisual translation is framed within a wider user-oriented model of accessibility intended to inform the planning and development of digital infrastructure toward inclusion and reduction of social inequalities.

Translating the gay identity in audiovisual media

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-225
Author(s):  
Antonio Jesús Martínez Pleguezuelos
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Cultural Turn

Abstract In this study we analyse different linguistic elements in the TV series Will & Grace that shape the gay identity of the main characters of the show. We will base the analysis on the inclusion of the cultural turn into the field of audiovisual translation studies and on the technical time and space constraints that may emerge when conveying the message in this type of texts. Therefore, we will focus on the treatment of cultural references associated to the LGBTQI community that are shown on the series, as well as the linguistic variant of gayspeak and the comic elements included in the dialogues in order to observe whether the information that viewers of the Spanish dubbed version receive regarding gay identity is the same that is portrayed in the original version in English.

scholarly journals Slovak thinking on audiovisual translation and the issue of the second-hand translation of Russian documentary films

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Limited Diffusion

The paper, in its first part, outlines the Slovak research into audiovisual translation (AVT) from the 1950s up to the present, paying attention to the most important scholars as well as publications that helped to shape and establish the discipline within Slovak translation studies. It is based on the ongoing bibliographical research and the historical explanation mapping the development of AVT research in Slovakia by I. Tyšš – e.g. his publication Myslenie o audiovizuálnom preklade na Slovensku: 1952 – 2017 (Thinking on Audiovisual Translation in Slovakia: 1952 – 2017, 2018) – as well as on own findings covering the last two years. In more detail, the first part of the paper highlights that it was primarily thanks to a younger generation of translation studies scholars – especially E. Perez (née Janecová), L. Paulínyová (née Kozáková) and J. Želonka – that in 2012 the Slovak research into AVT finally became systematic. The second part of the paper is devoted to the phenomenon of the so-called second-hand translation of originally Russian audiovisual works that may be observed in Slovakia in recent years. The questionable nature of this phenomenon is stressed since the Russian language is not a language of limited diffusion and definitely not remote in relation to the Slovak cultural space. On the example of two documentary films – Под властью мусора (Held Captive by Rubbish, 2013) and Дух в движении (Spirit in Motion, 2015), the author discusses and analyses the problems that occur when translating originally Russian AV works into Slovak through the English language, i.e. the negative shifts resulting from mis-/overinterpretation of the source text, translation by omission, wrong order of dialogues, cultural specifics and incorrect transcription.

scholarly journals Teaching Subtitling at Jordanian Universities: An Untapped Territory

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Ula K. Al-Dabbagh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Exponential Rate ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Satellite Channels ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Instrumental Role

The impact of globalization and the advent of satellite channels and digital technology have played an instrumental role in changing the audiovisual translation scene in Jordan. During the last two decades, the subtitling industry has flourished at an exponential rate as manifested in the number of institutions engaged in this form of translation, the quantity of multimodal texts commissioned for translation and the widening remit of translation activities conducted under the rubric of subtitling. The marked development in the subtitling industry, however, has not received adequate support from the academic institutions in the country. Departments that award undergraduate degrees in translation rarely teach courses in subtitling, and research conducted on the pedagogy of this kind of translation is almost nonexistent. This paper argues that courses in subtitling should be incorporated in the translation studies curricula offered at Jordanian universities not because these courses are an embellishment but because the benefits accrued from teaching this mode of translation are multifaceted. The paper highlights these benefits and examines whether the feedback from students exposed to subtitling activities reflects the importance of integrating this mode of audiovisual translation in BA translation programs offered at Jordanian universities.

scholarly journals Strategie opisu kulturemów w audiodeskrypcji

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (1(31)) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Anna Jankowska ◽  
Agnieszka Szarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

Strategies for describing culture-bound elements in audio description The article presents the issue of using strategies developed in Translation Studies to describe culture-bound elements in audio description. In the first part, the authors discuss the place of audio description in Translation Studies and especially within the field of audiovisual translation and Jakobson’s categories of intersemiotic, intralingual and interlingual translation. Then research on audio description carried out within the framework of Translation Studies and research on culture-bound referencesin audio description is presented. Finally, the authors present how translation strategies can be applied in audio description of culturebound elements.

scholarly journals Construindo corpora de legendas: passo a passo metodológico para pesquisas baseadas em corpus

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-195
Author(s):  
Janailton Mick Vitor da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Microsoft Word ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

RESUMO: O objetivo deste artigo é descrever o passo a passo metodológico para criação de corpora de legendas, retiradas de obras audiovisuais, como filmes e séries de TV, que pode servir a pesquisadores que trabalham no campo da Tradução Audiovisual e dos Estudos da Tradução Baseados em Corpus. O ponto de partida para a descrição ora introduzida baseou-se na pesquisa de Silva (2018), na qual foram apresentados passos para compilação, edição e preparação de corpora de legendas da série de TV Star Trek: Enterprise, utilizando-se programas razoavelmente conhecidos, como o Google Chrome, Bloco de Notas, Subtitle Edit, Microsoft Word e Excel. No presente artigo, entende-se que os passos aqui apresentados se estabelecem como sugestões de futuros percursos metodológicos a serem seguidos em pesquisas nas áreas supramencionadas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: construção de corpora de legendas; passos metodológicos; Tradução Audiovisual; Estudos da Tradução Baseados em Corpus.   ABSTRACT: The purpose of this article is to describe the step-by-step process for the creation of subtitles corpora, extracted from audiovisual works, such as films and TV series, that may be useful for researchers in the field of Audiovisual Translation and Corpus-Based Translation Studies. The starting point for such description is based on the research of Silva (2018), in which steps for compiling, editing and preparing corpora subtitles of the TV Series Star Trek: Enterprise were presented, using such reasonably known programs as Google Chrome, Notepad, SubtitleEdit, Microsoft Word and Excel. In the present article, it isunderstood that the steps introduced hereinare suggestions intended as future methodological stepsto be followed in research done in the aforementioned areas. KEYWORDS: subtitles corpora compilation; methodological steps; Audiovisual Translation; Corpus-Based Translation Studies.

scholarly journals Strategies of Subtitling Swear words in The Wolf of Wall Street Movie

لارك ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
pp. 423-432
Author(s):  
زينب سامي حول
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
European Association ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Audiovisual translation ( AVT ), including subtitling, constitutes a fundamental part of Translation Theories and Translation Studies; however, it has been neglected till recent years. Gradually, a number of studies begun to appear especially those attributed to the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation. As these studies continually increase, new technologies and media forms became in a glare of publicity. These technologies and forms ,i.e. international and intercultural communications led to the emergence of new forms of translation. The most efficacious and widely-spread form is cinematography. The translation of cinematography works is called AVT. Scholars state ten kinds of AVT which can be united and classified into two main groups, i.e. subtitling and revoicing. The present study concerns subtitling which generally means producing a dialogue translation in a film or an animated film in the form of titles usually appear at the bottom of the image or the screen . It attempts to shed light on subtitling( and in particular of swear words ) from English into Arabic in Terence Winter's The Wolf of Wall Street movie. It aims at investigating how the subtitler of this movie has dealt with these words in the original dialogue with the existence of the constraints imposed upon him. A quantitative analysis of the strategies used in subtitling the words and the number of  those, the words, which have been changed through rendering , have been set to answer  such a question.

scholarly journals Insights into the subtitling of films from Arabic into Spanish

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-84
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Candel-Mora
Keyword(s):  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Translation Methods

Audiovisual translation studies (AVT) have experienced an exponential growth in the last twenty years, have consolidated proven analysis methodologies, and attracted the interest mainly of Western scholars. It is interesting to investigate whether these methodologies are also applicable to the study of subtitling of films from linguistically and culturally distant cultures such as Egyptian and Spanish. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to verify whether the translation norms proposed in the translation methods for dubbing and subtitling, traditionally based on language combinations with English, are applicable for the specific case of the Arabic-Spanish language combination, based on the analysis of the treatment of the cultural elements present in the audiovisual texts selected for this research. Among the findings, the distinctive features and colloquial character and spontaneity of the original versions are frequently lost.

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