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New Approaches to Audiovisual Translation: The Usefulness of Corpus-Based Studies for the Teaching of Dubbing and Subtitling

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Languages for Specific Purposes in the Digital Era

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Research on audiovisual translation (AVT) has undergone considerable growth in the area of teaching and learning of languages for academic purposes. The interest in this field leads to an increase of research on dubbing, subtitling and, at the same time, on the teaching and learning of linguistic aspects in AVT didactics. These studies are being significantly fostered by computational linguistics, Computer Aided Translation Technology (CATT) and discourse analysis based on multimodal corpora of audiovisual documents. Corpus linguistics becomes then a methodological assistant for text linguistic analysis and represents, together with electronic resources and software, two basic tools for audiovisual text analysis. In this article we work with a bilingual corpus of subtitles which is distributed in two different subcorpora: CORSUBILIN (Corpus de Subtítulos Bilingües en Inglés) and CORSUBILES (Corpus de Subtítulos Bilingües en Español). In so doing, we try to show and develop some of the potential applications that Corpus linguistics has in the study of AVT.

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    Both versions 4.0 and 5.0 are available (Scott 2003). Among their new functions we find the WebGetter which allows users to build up a corpus using web pages with the grammatical or lexical unit that is being analyzed. For the purposes of the present study, since the .txt files have already been collected, we are not in the need of using an updated version of the program with the Webgetter function.

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  1. Departamento de Filología Inglesa I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

  2. Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Reyes Albarrán Martín

  3. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Blanca García Riaza

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Peromingo, J.P.R., Martín, R.A., Riaza, B.G. (2014). New Approaches to Audiovisual Translation: The Usefulness of Corpus-Based Studies for the Teaching of Dubbing and Subtitling. In: Bárcena, E., Read, T., Arús, J. (eds) Languages for Specific Purposes in the Digital Era. Educational Linguistics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02222-2_14

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