The Representational Meanings in Subtitle Translation

Chen, Yuping

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The Representational Meanings in Subtitle Translation

Yuping Chen²

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Drawing on the conceptual framework constructed and the detailed analytical methods set up in Chap. 3, this chapter examines the representational meanings in subtitle translation in ten films: Finding Nemo, Mulan, Frozen, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Toy Story, Inception, 2012, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, War Horse and Skyfall 007. They are all produced in the English language and subtitled in the Chinese language, enjoying great box office in mainland China.

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Notes

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Paralanguage refers to “a term for both the auditory, nonverbal elements and the nonauditory, nonverbal elements which make human verbal communication complete, natural and nonartificial” (Canepari 1985: 87 cited in Perego 2009: 60).
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“…one of the golen rules in the profession is to structure subtitles in such a way that they are semantically and syntactically self-contained” (Diaz-Cintas and Remael 2007:172).

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Chen, Y. (2019). The Representational Meanings in Subtitle Translation. In: Translating Film Subtitles into Chinese. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6108-1_4

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