Postgraduate Course: Audiovisual Translation Research (CLLC11173)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course focuses on the convergence of audiovisual related issues and translation studies. It aims at:
* encouraging critical thinking on the relationships between words, images and translation;
* introducing central concepts of audiovisual approaches to translation;
* showing how these approaches could be implemented in terms of various translation strategies;
* broadening the students' perspectives on the constraints attached to the different types of AVT modes. After an introduction to the course and two lectures on the various AVT modes, from week four we will focus on the different AVT modes from the perspective of research: dubbing, subtitling (including subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing- SDH), voice over, and audiodescription.
This not a practice course, the students will not be working with software for e.g. subtitling or dubbing. The emphasis is on the translation process in different settings and how the various AVT modes can be researched. |
| Course description |
Week 1: Introduction to the course with a focus on assessment (presenting your work to others, criteria for assessing presentations + essay).
Week 2: Research Methods in AVT 1
Díaz Cintas (2004) and Pérez-González (2009)
Week 3: Research Methods in AVT 2
Chaume, Frederic (2002), Pérez-González (2014) [one chapter from this book tbc]
Week 4: Subtitling research
Bogucki (2004), Mailhac (2000) and McClarty (2012)
Week 5: Subtitling & SDH research
Asimakoulas (2012), Baldry and Taylor (2004), and Díaz Cintas, Orero & Remael (eds) (2007) [one article from this book tbc]
Week 6: Dubbing and voice over research
Bosseaux (2013), Danan (1991), and Zabalbeascoa (1994)
Week 7: Dubbing and voice over research
Fawcett,(2003), Franco, Matamala and Pilar (2010) [one article from this book] and Romero Fresco, (2009).
Week 8: New AVT modalities: Accessibility: Audiodescription (AD)
Foerster (2010), Díaz Cintas, Orero & Remael (eds) (2007) (eds) [one article from this book, tbc] and Romero-Fresco (2013).
Week 9: Q&A session.
Week 10: Presentations on essay topic.
From week 4 until week 8 students will be doing presentations. There will be three readings to choose from and depending on student numbers, two/three students will present on the topic of the week. E.g. in week 4 two or three students will do a 15-minutes presentation on subtitling research + 10 minutes for questions and discussion. The remainder of the session will be used to recap and reflect.
Week 9 will be used to reflect back on the course and in week 10 the students will present the topics they have chosen to work on for their final essays. These will take the form of poster presentations or if the student intake is low students could do individual PowerPoint presentations to the whole class.
The course focuses on the convergence of audiovisual related issues and translation studies. It aims at:
* encouraging critical thinking on the relationships between words, images and translation;
* introducing central concepts of audiovisual approaches to translation;
* showing how these approaches could be implemented in terms of various translation strategies;
* broadening the students' perspectives on the constraints attached to the different types of AVT modes. After an introduction to the course and two lectures on the various AVT modes, from week four we will focus on the different AVT modes from the perspective of research: dubbing, subtitling (including subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing- SDH), voice over, and audiodescription.
This not a practice course, the students will not be working with software for e.g. subtitling or dubbing. The emphasis is on the translation process in different settings and how the various AVT modes can be researched.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Presentation: 20%
Essay (3,000 words): 80%
There is no practical element in this option since it is research-oriented and there is no provision for teaching practical elements such as subtitling (including SDH), dubbing, AD or voice over. For the essay, students will choose an original AV material, such as a film, TV series, or documentary and investigate its translation (e.g. dubbed, subtitled or audiodescribed versions) drawing on AVT theories. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of a range of theories and concepts in specific AVT areas
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of diverse AVT research issues, which intersect with other areas such as politics, power, gender, etc.
- Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues that are informed by recent developments in the subject
- Manage complex ethical and professional issues
- Present critical and creative work in different forms through individual presentation and group work
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Reading List
Asimakoulas, Dimitris (2012) 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady): Hijacking Transsexual Identity in the Subtitled Version of Strella by Panos Koutras', The Translator 18 (1): 47-75.
Assis Rosa, A (2001) 'Features of oral and written communication in subtitling' in Gambier Yves (ed) (Multi)Media Translation. Concepts, Practices and Research, Philadelphia and New York: John Benjamins, 213-221.
Baldry, Anthony and Christopher Taylor (2004) 'Multimodal concordancing and subtitles with MCA' in Alan Partington, John Morley and Louann Haarman (eds) Corpora and Discourse, Berlin: Peter Lang, 57-70.
Baldry, Anthony and Paul J. Thibault (2006) Multimodal Transcription and Text analysis, London and Oakville: Equinox.
Baumgarten, Nicole (2005) The Secret Agent: Film dubbing and the influence of the English language on German communicative preferences. Towards a model for the analysis of language use in visual media. Hamburg: University of Hamburg. PhD Thesis.
Bogucki, Lukasz (2004) 'The Constraint of Relevance in Subtitling', JoSTrans (1), 69-85.
Bogucki, Lucas (2004) A Relevance Framework for Constraints on Cinema Subtitling. Lodz: University of Lodz.
Bosseaux, Charlotte (2008) 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Characterization in the Musical Episode of the TV Series', Special issue of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication 14(2): 343-72.
__ (2012) 'Some Like it Dubbed. Translating Marilyn Monroe', Music, Text and Translation, (ed. Helen Julia Minors), Continuum Books: 81-92.
__ (2013) ''"Bloody hell. Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks. Oh God, I'm English" - Translating Spike', Gothic Studies, Manchester University Press: 21-32.
__ (Forthcoming 2015). Uncanny Encounters: Dubbing and Performance, Oxford: Peter Lang.
Chaume, Frederic (2002) 'Models of Research in Audiovisual Translation', Babel 48(1): 1-13. _ (2004) Cine y traducción. Madrid: Cátedra.
__ (2004a) 'Film Studies and Translation Studies: two disciplines at stake in audiovisual translation', Meta XLIX (1): 12-24.
_ (2013) Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing. Manchester: St Jerome.
Cinéma et traduction (1960) Babel 6(3).
Chuang, Ying-ting. (2006) 'Studying subtitle translation from a multi-modal approach', Babel, 52(4), 372-383.
Danan, M. (1991) 'Dubbing as an expression of nationalism', Meta 36(4), 606-14. http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/1991/v36/n4/002446ar.pdf
De Marco, Marcella (2008) Gender Stereotypes and Dubbing: Similarities and Differences in the Translation of Hollywood and British Films. Vic: Universidad de Vic. PhD Thesis.
Delabastita, Dirk (1989) 'Translation and mass-communication: film and TV translation as evidence of cultural dynamics', Babel 35(4): 193-218.
_ (1990). "Translation and the mass media", en Bassnett, S. y A. Lefevere (eds) Translation, History and Culture. Londres: Pinter, 97-109.
Desilla, Louisa (2009) Towards a Methodology for the Study of Implicatures in Subtitled Films: Multimodal Construal and Reception of Pragmatic Meaning across Cultures. Manchester: University of Manchester. PhD Thesis.
Díaz-Cintas, Jorge (2004) 'Subtitling: The Long Journey to Academic Acknowledgement', JoSTrans (1), 50-68: http://www.jostrans.org/issue01/articles/diazcintas.htm
__ & Muñoz Sánchez, Pablo (2006) 'Fansubs: Audiovisual Translation in an Amateur Environment', The Journal of Specialised Translation 6: 37-52.
_ & Aline Remael (2007) Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling. Manchester: St Jerome.
_ Pilar Orero & Aline Remael (eds) (2007) Media for All. Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio Description, and Sign Language. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Díaz Cintas, Jorge, Anderman, Gunilla (eds.) (2009) Audiovisual Translation: Language Transfer on Screen, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dollerup, Cay (1974) 'On subtitles in television programmes', Babel 20: 197-202.
Dries, Josephine (1995) Dubbing and Subtitling: Guidelines for Production and Distribution. Düsseldorf: EIM.
Fawcett, P. (1996). 'Translating film' in G. T. Harris (ed.), On Translating French Literature and Film, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 65-86.
__ (2003) 'The manipulation of language and culture in film translation', in Maria Calzada Pérez (ed.) Apropos Ideology, Manchester: St Jerome: 145-163.
Ferrer Simó, María Rosario (2005) 'Fansubs y scanlations: la influencia del aficionado en los criterios profesionales', Puentes 6: 27-44.
Fodor, Itsvan (1976) Film Dubbing: Phonetic, Semiotic, Aesthetic and Psychological Aspects. Hamburgo: Buske.
Foerster, Anna (2010) 'Towards a creative approach in subtitling: a case study', in Díaz Cintas, Jorge; Anna Matamala & Josélia Neves (eds.) New Insights into Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility. Media for All 2, Amsterdam: Rodopi: 81-98.
Fong, Gilbert C. F., & Kenneth K. L. Au (Eds.). (2009). Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context. Kong Hong: The Chinese University Press.
Franco, Eliana, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero (2010) Voice-over Translation: An Overview. Bern: Peter Lang.
Gambier, Yves (ed) (1998) Translating for the Media. Turku: University of Turku.
_ (2003) 'Introduction. Screen transadaptation: perception and reception', in Y. Gambier (Ed.), Screen Translation: Special issue of The Translator 9 (2). Manchester: St. Jerome.
_ & Henrik Gottlieb (eds) (2001) (Multi)Media Translation: Concepts, Practices and Research. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
González Vera, M. Pilar (2010) The Translation of Recent Digital Animated Movies: The Case of DreamWorks' films Antz, Shrek and Shrek 2 and Shark Tale. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza. PhD Thesis.
Goris, Olivier (1993) 'The Question of French Dubbing: Towards a Frame for Systematic Investigation', Target 5(2): 169-90.
Gottlieb, H. (2000): Screen Translation. Six Studies in Subtitling, Dubbing and Voice-over. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
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Griesel, Yvonne (2009) 'Surtitling: Surtitles as another hybrid on a hybrid stage', TRANS: Revista de traductología: 13: 119-127.
Herbst, T (1987) 'A Pragmatic Approach to Dubbing' EBU Review 6: 21-23.
Ivarsson, Jan (1992) Subtitling for the Media: A Handbook of an Art. Estocolmo: TransEdit.
_ & Mary Carroll (1998) Subtitling. Simrisham: TransEdit HB.
Jiménez Hurtado, Catalina (ed) (2007) Traducción y accesibilidad. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
Kalantzi, Dimitra (2009) Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Corpus-based Methodology for the Analysis of Subtitles with a Focus on Segmentation and Deletion. Manchester: University of Manchester. PhD Thesis.
Karamitroglou, Fotios (2000) Towards a Methodology for the Investigation of Norms in Audiovisual Translation. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.
Kovacic, Irena (1994) 'Relevance as a factor in subtitling reductions', in Dollerup, C. & A. Lindegaard (eds) Teaching Translation and Interpreting 2. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 245-251.
Luyken, G-M. et al. (eds) (1991) Overcoming Language Barriers in Television: Dubbing and Subtitling for the European Audience. Manchester: EIM.
Mailhac, Jean-Pierre (2000) 'Subtitling and Dubbing, for Better or Worse? The English Video Versions of Gazon Maudit' in Salama-Carr, Myriam (ed.) On Translating French Literature and Film II: 129-54, Amsterdam: Ropodi.
Matamala Anna and Pilar Orero (eds.) Listening to Subtitles: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Berlin: Peter Lang
Mayoral Asensio, Roberto, Dorothy Kelly & Natividad Gallardo (1988) 'Concept of constrained translation. Non-linguistic perspectives of translation'. Meta 33(3): 356-367.
_ (1993) 'La traducción cinematográfica: el subtitulado'. Sendebar 4: 45-68.
McClarty, Rebecca (2012) 'Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach in Creative Subtitling', MonTI 4: 133-153.
Minchinton, John (1986). Booklet on Subtitling. Unpublished manuscript.
Neves, Josélia (2005) Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. London: Roehampton University. PhD Thesis.
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Nornes, Abé Mark (1999) 'For an Abusive Subtitling', Film Quarterly, 52(3): 17-34.
O'Connell, Eithne (2003) Minority Language Dubbing for Children. Oxford: Peter Lang.
O'Hagan, Minako (2012) 'From Fan Translation to Crowdsourcing: Consequences of Web 2.0 User Empowerment in Audiovisual Translation, in Remael, Aline, Orero, Pilar, Carroll, Mary (eds.) Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi: Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at the Crossroads. Media for All 3, 23-42.
Orero, Pilar (ed) (2004) Topics in Audiovisual Translation. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
O'Sullivan, Carol (2011) Translating Popular Film, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pageon, Daniel (2007) The World of the Voice-over. London: Actors World Production.
Pedersen Jan, (2011) Subtitling Norms for Television, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pedersen, Jan (2007) Scandinavian Subtitles: A Comparative Study of Subtitling Norms in Sweden and Denmark with a Focus on Extralinguistic Cultural References. Stockholm: University of Stockholm. PhD Thesis.
Perego, Elisa (2012) Eye Tracking in Audiovisual Translation, Rome: Aracne.
Pérez-González, Luis (2007) 'Appraising dubbed conversation. Systemic functional insights into the construal of naturalness in translated film dialogue', The Translator 13 (1): 1-38.
_ (2009), 'Audiovisual Translation', in Baker, Mona and Gabriela Saldanha (eds) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, 2nd revised and extended edition. London & New York: Routledge: 13-20.
_ (2012) 'Co-creational Subtitling in the Digital Media: Transformative and Authorial Practices', International Journal of Cultural Studies 16(1): 3-21; http://ics.sagepub.com/content/16/1/3.full.pdf+html (last accessed 16th December 2013).
-- (2014) Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, Routledge.
Ramière, Nathalie (2007) Strategies of Cultural Transfer in Subtitling and Dubbing. Brisbane: University of Queensland. PhD Thesis.
Ramière, Nathalie (2004) 'Comment le sous-titrage et le doublage peuvent modifier la perception d'un film. Analyse contrastive des versions sous-titrée et doublée en français du film d'Eli Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)', Meta XLIX (1): 102-114.
Reid, Helene (1978) 'Sub-titling, the intelligent solution'. Horguelin, P. A. (ed.) Translating, a Profession. Proceedings VIII FIT World Congress. Montreal, 420-428.
Remael. Aline (2000) A Polysystem Approach to British New Wave Film Adaptation, Screenwriting and Dialogue. Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. PhD Thesis.
Romero Fresco, Pablo (2009) 'Naturalness in the Spanish Dubbing Language: A case of not-so-close Friends', Meta 54-1, 49-72.
_ (2011) Subtitling through Speech Recognition: Respeaking, St Jerome: Manchester.
_ (2012) 'Respeaking in Translator Training Curricula. Present and Future Prospects', The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Volume 6 (1): 91-112.
_ (2013) 'Accessible filmmaking: Joining the dots between audiovisual translation, accessibility and filmmaking', JoSTrans 20: 201-223.
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Sanz Ortega, Elena (forthcoming 2015) 'Beyond Monolingualism: a Descriptive and Multimodal Methodology for the Dubbing of Polyglot Films', Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
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Schröter, Thorsten (2005) Shun the Pun, Rescue the Rhyme? The Dubbing and Subtitling of Language-Play in Film. Karlstad: Karlstad University. PhD Thesis.
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Tomaszkiewicz, Teresa (1993) Les opérations linguistiques qui sous-tendent le processus de sous-titrage des films. Poznan: University Adam Mickiewicz. PhD Thesis.
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Tomaszkiewicz, Thomas (2009) 'Linguistic and Semiotic Approaches to audiovisual Translation', in Freedi M and M Pavesi (eds) Analysing Audiovisual Dialogue. Linguistic and Translational Insights, CLUEB, Bologna: 19-31.
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Yacoub, Rania (2009): Ideological Aspects of Dubbing into Arabic for Children, with Special Reference to Language Variety. Salford: University of Salford. PhD Thesis.
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_ (1994) 'Factors in dubbing television comedy', Perspectives. Studies in Translatology, 1: 89-100.
_ (1996a) 'Translating Jokes for Dubbed Television Situation Comedies', in Dirk Delabastita (ed.) (1996) The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. Wordplay and Translation, Manchester: St. Jerome: 235-257.
_ (1996b) 'La traducción de la comedia televisiva: implicaciones teóricas', in Bravo, J.M. y P. Fernández Nistal (eds) A Spectrum of Translation Studies. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid: 173-201.
_ (1997) 'Dubbing and the Non-verbal Dimension', in Poyatos, Fernando (ed.) New Perspectives and Challenges in Literature, Interpretation and the Media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 327-342.
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Online bibliography
http://www.transedit.se/Bibliography.htm
Publications: Journals Special Issues on AVT/ Proceedings, etc.
Cadernos de Tradução, 2005, Vol. 2(26):
www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/issue/view/439
InTRAlinea, 2006: www.intralinea.it/specials/respeaking/eng_open.php
JoSTrans, 2006, Vol. 6: www.jostrans.org/issue06/issue06_toc.php
Meta, 2004, Vol. 49(1): www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2004/v49/n1/index.html
Puentes, 2005, Vol. 6: http://www.ugr.es/~greti/revista_puente.htm
Trans: Revista de Traductología, 2007, Vol. 1: www.trans.uma.es/trans_11.html
The Translator, 2003, Vol. 9(2): http://www.stjerome.co.uk/tsa/issue/18/
Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 2007, Vol. 14(4):
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmps20/14/4
MONTI 4 (2012): http://dti.ua.es/es/documentos/monti/monti-4-indice-y-enlaces.pdf
Mutra conference proceedings: www.euroconferences.info/proceedings/proceedings.php?proceedings=1
Miscellaneous
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ras2/videos/16/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578033301429532328.html |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Independent critical and analytical thought
Information retrieval
Presenting the information retrieved through reasoned and reflective arguments
Text production on a professional level, a vital skill for translators
Thinking and writing clearly
General IT skills
General bibliographical skills
Time management |
| Keywords | ATR |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Charlotte Bosseaux
Tel: (0131 6)51 3735
Email: Charlotte.Bosseaux@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Sarah.Harvey@ed.ac.uk |
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