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Inserts in modern script-writing and their translation into Spanish

Abstract

In this paper we study the translation of six types of inserts (Biber et al. 1999: 1082ff); namely peripheral elements to the clause structure, traditionally regarded as secondary in descriptive grammars and which have received the attention of corpus linguists in recent years. Interjections, greetings and farewells, attention signals, hesitators, polite formulae, and discourse markers will be covered. After a short introduction on the relevance of these elements within spoken English, we proceed to analyze the translational strategies used in the Spanish versions of the British films ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ and ‘Notting Hill’ selected for the study because of the contemporary texture of their scripts, which attempt to imitate the spoken mode in its informal variety. In a final section, we make some concluding remarks about the findings.

Abstract

In this paper we study the translation of six types of inserts (Biber et al. 1999: 1082ff); namely peripheral elements to the clause structure, traditionally regarded as secondary in descriptive grammars and which have received the attention of corpus linguists in recent years. Interjections, greetings and farewells, attention signals, hesitators, polite formulae, and discourse markers will be covered. After a short introduction on the relevance of these elements within spoken English, we proceed to analyze the translational strategies used in the Spanish versions of the British films ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ and ‘Notting Hill’ selected for the study because of the contemporary texture of their scripts, which attempt to imitate the spoken mode in its informal variety. In a final section, we make some concluding remarks about the findings.

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
Between Text and Image
This chapter is in the book Between Text and Image
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.78.12val

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
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