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Vol. 32:3 (2020) ► pp.389–419

Multimodal corpus analysis of subtitling

The case of non-standard varieties

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| University of Hafr Al Batin

This article proposes a new methodology for multimodal corpus analysis. It does so by particularly focusing on the issue of the translation of non-standard language varieties. This new methodology, which is significantly influenced by the work of Iedema (2003), Jimenez Hurtado and Soler Gallego (2013), Pastra (2008) and Ramos Pinto (2018), is capable of identifying the modes and resources at play and the relations identified between them, as well as how such relations participate in the construction of the non-standard varieties’ communicative meaning. It also accounts for the impact of the introduction of subtitles on preserving, cancelling or modifying the intermodal relations identified in the source text and, consequently, the diegetic functions they support; that is, the function they assume in the fictional world of the film. In this regard, the methodology assumes a clear translational perspective.

Keywords: audiovisual translation, subtitling, multimodality, corpus analysis, linguistic variation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Subtitling of linguistic varieties
  • 3.Corpus analysis of subtitled films with non-standard discourse
    • 3.1Corpus
    • 3.2Textual dimension
    • 3.3Diegetic dimension
  • 4.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 February 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/target.18085.ram
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