@article{ART001978022},
author={June Lee},
title={Subtitle Style and Characterization},
journal={The Journal of Translation Studies},
issn={1229-795X},
year={2015},
volume={16},
number={1},
pages={93-116},
doi={10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004}
TY - JOUR
AU - June Lee
TI - Subtitle Style and Characterization
JO - The Journal of Translation Studies
PY - 2015
VL - 16
IS - 1
PB - The Korean Association for Translation Studies
SP - 93
EP - 116
SN - 1229-795X
AB - This paper investigates how shifts in subtitle style affects characterization in audiovisual translation (AVT). The discussion is based on the comparison of the Korean dialogue of the intellectually disabled character Lee Yong-gu, the protagonist of ‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’, and its English subtitles. The dialogue is categorized into 20 speech functions proposed by Na Su-Hwa(2006) and the analysis focuses on the ones that show a frequency of 5% or higher. The results show that the style shifts of translated subtitles caused by technical constraints can modify the characterization of the main figure to a certain extent. However, the multimodal features of the movie complement the discrepancy delimiting radical distortion of the protagonist’s image.
Concluding the research, it is emphasized that the translator must understand the unique style of speech portrayed by each character and aim at representing a similar image in the target text by adopting appropriate styles including form style markers, while taking into consideration the temporal and spacial constraints of AVT.
KW - characterization;audiovisual translation;subtitle;translation style;intellectually disabled character
DO - 10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
ER -
June Lee. (2015). Subtitle Style and Characterization. The Journal of Translation Studies, 16(1), 93-116.
June Lee. 2015, "Subtitle Style and Characterization", The Journal of Translation Studies, vol.16, no.1 pp.93-116. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee "Subtitle Style and Characterization" The Journal of Translation Studies 16.1 pp.93-116 (2015) : 93.
June Lee. Subtitle Style and Characterization. 2015; 16(1), 93-116. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee. "Subtitle Style and Characterization" The Journal of Translation Studies 16, no.1 (2015) : 93-116.doi: 10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee. Subtitle Style and Characterization. The Journal of Translation Studies, 16(1), 93-116. doi: 10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee. Subtitle Style and Characterization. The Journal of Translation Studies. 2015; 16(1) 93-116. doi: 10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee. Subtitle Style and Characterization. 2015; 16(1), 93-116. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
June Lee. "Subtitle Style and Characterization" The Journal of Translation Studies 16, no.1 (2015) : 93-116.doi: 10.15749/jts.2015.16.1.004
