Media and translation: an interdisciplinary approach
Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. If one views media and translation as anything ranging from film and television drama to news-casting, commercials, video games, web-pages and electronic street signs, it would seem…
Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has been published in this field that any further publications are superfluous. But if one views media and translation as anything …
Media and translation: an interdisciplinary approach
Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. If one views media and translation as anything ranging from film and television drama to news-casting, commercials, video games, web-pages and electronic street signs, it would seem…
Subtitling films in another language becomes especially complex when the original language deviates from its standard form. Films that feature non-standard pronunciation, dialects or other varieties of language, especially when juxtaposed with more standard uses, are said to dis…
La traducción audiovisual (TAV) es una disciplina reciente que ha alcanzado su máximo desarrollo durante el siglo XXI. Esta modalidad traductora se hace, si cabe, más necesaria en un contexto como el español, dado el considerable aumento de la producción audiovisual en los los ú…
Translating humour in audiovisual texts
Translating humour in audiovisual texts
Humour found in audiovisual products is, of course, performative in nature. If we consider instances of humour - any droll moment occurring in today's fare of mixed-genre products as a composite of cognition, emotion, interaction and expression - we see that the verbal code beco…