Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Audiovisual translation comes of age 1
5. Recent developments and challenges in audiovisual translation research 11
6. Part 1. Electronic databases and corpora
7. ICT approaches
8. Forlixt 1 – The Forlì Corpus of Screen Translation: Exploring macrostructures 37
9. Forlixt 1 – The Forlì Corpus of Screen Translation: Exploring microstructures 51
10. New tools for translators: INTCA, an electronic dictionary of interjections 63
11. Linguistic approaches
12. Spoken language in film dubbing: Target language norms, interference and translational routines 79
13. High felicity: A speech act approach to quality assessment in subtitling 101
14. Inserts in modern script-writing and their translation into Spanish 117
15. Part 2. Perception and quality
16. Empirical approaches
17. The perception of dubbese: An Italian study 135
18. Acceptance of the norm or suspension of disbelief? The case of formulaic language in dubbese 149
19. Measuring the perception of the screen translation of Un Posto al Sole : A cross-cultural study 165
20. Cultural and psycholinguistic approaches
21. Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian 183
22. From darkness to light in subtitling 197
23. Subtitles and line-breaks: Towards improved readability 211
24. Socio-economic approaches
25. The localization of promotional discourse on the internet 227
26. Issues of quality in screen translation: Problems and solutions 241
27. References 257
28. Filmography 285
29. Index 289