Translating Film Subtitles into Chinese

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Theoretical Foundations

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4. Research Methodology and Detailed Analytical Methods

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5. The Representational Meanings in Subtitle Translation

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6. The Compositional Meanings in Subtitle Translation

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7. The Interactive Meanings in Subtitle Translation

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8. Discussion and Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This book examines three metafunction meanings in subtitle translation with three research foci, i.e., the main types of cross-modal interrelation, the primary function of semiotic interplay, and the key linguistic components influencing the subtitles. It goes beyond traditional textual analysis in translation studies; approaches subtitle translation from a multimodality standpoint; and breaks through the linguistic restraints on subtitling research by underscoring the role of semiotic interplay. In the field of multimodality, this book bridges subtitling and multimodality by investigating the interweaving relationships between different semiotic modes, and their corresponding impacts on subtitle translation.

• Multimodal perspective
• semiotic translation
• Chinese subtitle translation
• representational meaning
• interactive meaning
• compositional meaning
• Audiovisual translation
• semiotic interrelations
• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• subtitle translation
• translation studies
• chinese

• China Agricultural University , Beijing, China

  Yuping Chen

Dr. Yuping Chen graduated with a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia, and is currently an Associate Professor at China Agricultural University. Her main research interests are in translation studies, discourse analysis and semiotics.

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