Subtitling: Diagonal translation

1 January 1994

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Perspectives

Vol. 2 (1) , 101-121
https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.1994.9961227

Abstract

Subtitling of televised foreign‐language material not only changes language; it also switches from the spoken to the written mode, and it presents itself ‘in real time’, as a dynamic text type. Hence, due to the complex, ‘diagonal’ nature of subtitling, the subtitler must possess the musical ears of an interpreter, the stylistic sensitivity of a literary translator, the visual acuteness of a film cutter, and the esthetic sense of a book designer. The author discusses subtitling in the context of language transfer, and suggests nine basic fields to consider when creating ‐ and evaluating ‐ interlingual subtitles for television and video.

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