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- Pedersen, Jan, 1969-
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Fansubbing in subtitling land : An investigation into the nature of fansubs in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Target. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0924-1884 .- 1569-9986. ; 31:1, s. 50-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fansubs (subtitles made by fans for fans) have become a global practice, and it is by now a fairly well-described phenomenon, particularly for fansubs of Japanese anime. However, for Sweden, which has a long and strong tradition of prosubs (commissioned professional subtitles), there have hardly been any studies of this increasingly prolific phenomenon. This paper seeks to remedy this situation by investigating 16 subtitled versions of ten english-language films. The analysis uses the FAR model of quality assessment and also investigates other aspects, such as creativity. The results show that there is great variety between the various fansubbed versions. On average, Swedish fansubs are found to be of lower quality, less adhering to norms and also more abusively faithful than prosubs. Moreover, the fansubs in this study are hardly creative at all. This could be due to fansubbing being a rather marginal phenomenon in Sweden, the land of subtitling.
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- Pedersen, Jan, 1969-
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How metaphors are rendered in subtitles
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Ingår i: Target. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0924-1884 .- 1569-9986. ; 29:3, s. 416-439
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Metaphors have been thoroughly studied as translation problems in recent decades. However, they are still under-researched in the subfield of audiovisual translation. This is strange since this mode of translation, particularly subtitling, has very special conditions which complicate the translating of metaphors, such as the interplay between dialogue, image and subtitles, as well as severe time and space constraints. This paper investigates how metaphors in the British sitcom Yes, Prime Minister were subtitled into Swedish. The results show that subtitlers treat metaphors as an important language feature, less prone to omission than other features. Furthermore, monocultural metaphors, which are not shared between cultures, are subtitled using more strategies than transcultural ones. Metaphors are also subtitled differently depending on the degree of entrenchment. Typically for metaphor translation, there is a loss of metaphor force, but more research is needed to ascertain whether this is media-specific or a general translation effect of growing standardization.
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- Perego, Elisa, et al.
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Dubbing vs. subtitling Complexity matters
- 2018
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Ingår i: Target. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0924-1884 .- 1569-9986. ; 30:1, s. 137-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the claims regarding the potential disruptiveness of subtitling for audiovisual processing, existing empirical evidence supports the idea that subtitle processing is semi-automatic and cognitively effective, and that, in moderately complex viewing scenarios, dubbing does not necessarily help viewers. In this paper we appraise whether the complexity of the translated audiovisual material matters for the cognitive and evaluative reception of subtitled vs. dubbed audiovisual material. To this aim, we present the results of two studies on the viewers' reception of film translation (dubbing vs. subtitling), in which we investigate the cognitive and evaluative consequences of audiovisual complexity. In Study 1, the results show that a moderately complex film is processed effectively and is enjoyed irrespective of the translation method. In Study 2, the subtitling (vs. dubbing) of a more complex film leads to more effortful processing and lower cognitive performance, but not to a lessened appreciation. These results expose the boundaries of subtitle processing, which are reached only when the audiovisual material to be processed is complex, and they encourage scholars and practitioners to reconsider old standards as well as to invest more effort in crafting diverse types of audiovisual translations tailored both to the degree of complexity of the source product and to the individual differences of the target viewers.
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- Sannholm, Raphael, 1978-, et al.
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Situated minds and distributed systems in translation : Exploring the conceptual and empirical implications
- 2024
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Ingår i: Target. - 0924-1884 .- 1569-9986. ; 36:2, s. 159-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sheds light on two different perspectives on the boundaries of the cognitive system and the consequences of their adoption for Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS). Both are represented by different approaches within the cognitive scientific cluster of approaches referred to as situated or 4EA (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended, and affective) cognition. The first, the person-centred perspective, takes individuals as a starting point and describes their interactions with their social and material surroundings. The second, the distributed, extended perspective, takes the joint activity of different situated actors and material artefacts as its starting point and depicts this socio-cognitive unit as the object of analysis. With this article, we do not seek to advocate the use of one over the other. Rather, we attempt to offer a coherent interpretation of how the cognitive process of translation can be studied and interpreted as a situated activity either from the perspective of individual actors or from a larger, distributed, and extended angle that considers people and the relevant social and material environment as a system. Specifically, we discuss what is to be gained if translation is studied from a distributed cognitive perspective. To this end, we illustrate key aspects of the discussion using empirical examples from current field research in which both an individual and a distributed perspective are applied to analyse interaction in a translation workplace.
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- Wadensjö, Cecilia, 1954-
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Dialogue interpreting : A monologising practice in a dialogically organised world
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Ingår i: Target. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 0924-1884 .- 1569-9986. ; 16:1, s. 105-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates dialogue interpreting as a monologising social practice, and demonstrates how this can be done within a generai theoretical framework of dialogism. Drawing on earlier research on naturally occurring, interpreted face-to-face interaction, the paper argues for treating dialogue interpreting as a separate empirical field within the generai field of Translation Studies. The constant overlap between target and source environment is identified as one of its characteristic features. Adding to the current discussion on ethics in Translation Studies, the paper finally highlights the point of distinguishing between interpreters' professional ideology and lived professional practice.
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- Alvstad, Cecilia, 1971
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Ambiguity Translated for Children: Andersen's "Den standhaftige Tinsoldat" as a case in point
- 2008
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Ingår i: Target. - 0924-1884. ; 20:2, s. 222-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses ambiguity in translations for children. 'Ambiguity', here understood as something that allows for more than one interpretation, is supposed to be critical in translation for children as it clashes with some mediators' ideas of what children's literature is or ought to be. Hans Christian Andersen's tale of "Den standhaftige Tinsoldat" ['The steadfast tin soldier'] and a sample of twenty-four translations thereof (twelve into Swedish and twelve into Spanish) are used to explore different ways that ambiguity is translated for children. The objective is to determine if and how the tale's ambiguities are manipulated in the various translations, and thus to initiate a theoretical discussion of ambiguity in translation for children. A difference is established between 'textually resolvable' and 'textually irresolvable' ambiguities and these two kinds of ambiguity are found to be treated differently in the analyzed sample of translations.
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