Speech Acts, Directness and Politeness in Dubbing; American Television Series in Hungary

ISBN-13: 9781788742320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Karoly Polcz

Opis

Speech acts - such as requests, invitations and offers - pose particular challenges for dubbing translators due to cultural differences. This volume draws on data from over 700 episodes of twenty different television series and introduces a multidimensional model for capturing dominant patterns in translating speech acts.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Speech acts in translation - Pragmatic equivalence in the translation of speech acts - Speech acts, directness and sociopragmatic variables - Research design - Pragmatic shifts between the directness categories - Pragmatic shifts within the directness categories - Pragmatic transfer - Summary and conclusions

O autorze

Károly Polcz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Business Languages at Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences. He obtained his PhD in linguistics with a specialization in translation studies from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has been teaching translation studies and English for specific purposes for more than twenty years. His research interests lie in business and audiovisual translation, terminology, pragmatics and the methodology of English for specific purposes. He is a member of the Associations of Hungarian Applied Linguists and Language Teachers.