Subtitling Television Series: A Corpus-Driven Study of Police Procedurals

ISBN-13: 9781787077966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Blanca Arias-Badia

Opis

Popular television series are in high demand in multiple languages, but subtitling these series poses many challenges. This book offers a contrastive study of the American English television dialogue and the Castilian Spanish subtitles of three popular police procedurals: Castle (2009), Dexter (2006), and The Mentalist (2008).

Spis treści

Contents: Norms: A cross-disciplinary concern - The verbal component of the audiovisual text - Corpus presentation - Morphosyntactic analysis I: Quantitative approach - Morphosyntactic analysis II: Qualitative approach - Lexical analysis I: Quantitative approach - Lexical analysis II: Qualitative approach.

O autorze

Blanca Arias-Badia is a research fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on subtitling and audiovisual translation research. She holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. She has undertaken research stays at King's College London, University College London and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her main research interests are audiovisual translation and accessibility. She is a member of TransMedia Catalonia (UAB) and InfoLex (UPF), and she leads knowledge transfer projects at the Catalan Association for the Promotion of Accessibility (ACPA). She also works as a translator and proofreader.