As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at ex...As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at exploring the effect of subtitled movies on listening comprehension of EFL learners.展开更多
With the prosperous development of global film and television industry,the importance of subtitle translation is becoming more and more prominent.From the perspective of translation pragmatics,this paper explores the ...With the prosperous development of global film and television industry,the importance of subtitle translation is becoming more and more prominent.From the perspective of translation pragmatics,this paper explores the subtitle translation strategies and methods of the Chinese animation“Yao-Chinese folktales”as an example.It is found that the translators tend to adopt the naturalisation translation strategy based on the purpose of communication,and highlight the coherence of the translated text by omitting the translation based on the principle of coherence among the three principles of the theory of translation.At the same time,a small amount of phonetic translation is also used in the translation,which is faithful to the original text and disseminates Chinese culture.展开更多
In recent years,subtitling has emerged as a prominent topic in the field of translation studies.This paper conducts a quantitative analysis of literature related to“subtitling”retrieved from the China National Knowl...In recent years,subtitling has emerged as a prominent topic in the field of translation studies.This paper conducts a quantitative analysis of literature related to“subtitling”retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),focusing on sources indexed in the CSSCI and Peking University Core Journals databases.Utilizing the bibliometric tool CiteSpace,the study reviews the research hotspots and developmental trends in Chinese subtitling studies over the past two decades.The findings reveal that,driven by the growth of the film and television industry,deepening cross-cultural communication,and continuous technological advancements,research in this field has gradually shifted from theoretical exploration to practical application.The focus has become increasingly refined,diversified,and intelligent,expanding into interdisciplinary and multimodal translation studies.The paper also discusses current limitations in the research and outlines future directions,offering targeted suggestions to provide valuable references for further studies and practical endeavors in this domain.展开更多
Movie,as a media,plays an important and irreplaceable role in culture dissemination.Therefore,a successful film subtitle translation deserves much of the credit.Based on Darwin’s adaptation and selection and combined...Movie,as a media,plays an important and irreplaceable role in culture dissemination.Therefore,a successful film subtitle translation deserves much of the credit.Based on Darwin’s adaptation and selection and combined with the adaptation theory,professor Hu proposed and developed Eco-translatology,which studies translation from the perspective of ecology.This theory defined translation as a translator's adaptation and selection activities in a translational eco-environment,which is the world present by the source text,the source language,and the target language,namely the integrity of language,communication,culture,society,readers,the author and so on.展开更多
Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries have become increasingly frequent,which boosts the development of film industry and highlights the importance of subtitle translation.However,in China,su...Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries have become increasingly frequent,which boosts the development of film industry and highlights the importance of subtitle translation.However,in China,subtitling is a relatively new research field of translation.This study explores the guiding role of domestication and foreignization strategies in English film subtitle translation.On the basis of material from Ice Age,the paper carries on the analysis of film subtitle translation in terms of expressions with typical cultural features and idioms&proverbs under the effective guidance of domestication and foreignization translation strategies.It’s concluded that domestication and foreignization strategies can provide theoretical guidance for subtitling and appropriate combination of the two strategies can achieve better translation effects.展开更多
Bilingual subtitling is often employed as an economical and effective method in media language transfer. It could be regarded as a branch of translation and often employs translation theories and strategies when carry...Bilingual subtitling is often employed as an economical and effective method in media language transfer. It could be regarded as a branch of translation and often employs translation theories and strategies when carrying out the blingual task. However, there are several other factors that from media industry and administration need to be combined with translation during the process of subtitling. This paper uses the Italian movie"The Scientific Card Player"as an example to give an analysis of several factors which are involved in movie subtitling, including the poly-semiotic nature of audiovisual material, movie censorship, subtitling and translating techniques and strategies.展开更多
As a large number of foreign films have flooded into the Chinese film market, subtitling translation plays an important role in helping the audience understand and learn about some information and cultures from differ...As a large number of foreign films have flooded into the Chinese film market, subtitling translation plays an important role in helping the audience understand and learn about some information and cultures from different countries. This paper mainly uses Peter Newmark's"equivalent effect"as a theoretical foundation to analyze the features of two kitties'(Garfield and Prince) source language (English) and target language (Chinese) in the film Garfield Ⅱ based on their living surroundings and social status.展开更多
Puns always play a vital role in sitcoms in order to create humor or ironies.Sometimes good translations of puns can decide whether target language audiences are able to obtain the equal understandings and reactions o...Puns always play a vital role in sitcoms in order to create humor or ironies.Sometimes good translations of puns can decide whether target language audiences are able to obtain the equal understandings and reactions of the sitcoms as source language audiences get.Nevertheless,it is not easy for many translators to render faithfully and smoothly some English puns into Chinese.Therefore,this paper will analyze the subtitle translation of puns in the British sitcom Mind Your Language from the perspective of Speech Act Theory so as to find out some useful and helpful strategies for translation of puns in subtitling.展开更多
More and more foreign movies and TV series has been translated into Chinese,but there is still no mature theory to guide the subtitle translation.The subtitle of Twilight Saga has been selected as examples to discuss ...More and more foreign movies and TV series has been translated into Chinese,but there is still no mature theory to guide the subtitle translation.The subtitle of Twilight Saga has been selected as examples to discuss how to apply Eugene A.Ni da's"Functional Equivalence Theory"into the movie translation to achieve expected effect.展开更多
As a special kind of text,the importance of translating subtitles is becoming more and more prominent.The subtitle translation is widely favored by the audience as one of the main form of film translation.Translated f...As a special kind of text,the importance of translating subtitles is becoming more and more prominent.The subtitle translation is widely favored by the audience as one of the main form of film translation.Translated film text is not under the constraints by the time of the movie screen’s switching.Unlike the translation of literary works,it can make some explanation in some obscure place.Therefore,the translation of the film dialogue must let the audience clear about the content upon taking a look.Translators should be based on the national audience,and from the artistic point of view of the audience’s appreciation of art,choose the native language that is most similar to domestic audiences,close to the original film art,and easy to accept.Therefore,research on the subject will have a significant effect on subtitles translation strategies.展开更多
This paper will try to apply Andre Lefevere's rewriting theory to study subtitling.Through the analysis of The Last Emperor and its two Chinese translations,we will explore how ideology manipulates subtitle transl...This paper will try to apply Andre Lefevere's rewriting theory to study subtitling.Through the analysis of The Last Emperor and its two Chinese translations,we will explore how ideology manipulates subtitle translation.展开更多
Nowadays,people use online resources such as educational videos and courses.However,such videos and courses are mostly long and thus,summarizing them will be valuable.The video contents(visual,audio,and subtitles)coul...Nowadays,people use online resources such as educational videos and courses.However,such videos and courses are mostly long and thus,summarizing them will be valuable.The video contents(visual,audio,and subtitles)could be analyzed to generate textual summaries,i.e.,notes.Videos’subtitles contain significant information.Therefore,summarizing subtitles is effective to concentrate on the necessary details.Most of the existing studies used Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF)and Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA)models to create lectures’summaries.This study takes another approach and applies LatentDirichlet Allocation(LDA),which proved its effectiveness in document summarization.Specifically,the proposed LDA summarization model follows three phases.The first phase aims to prepare the subtitle file for modelling by performing some preprocessing steps,such as removing stop words.In the second phase,the LDA model is trained on subtitles to generate the keywords list used to extract important sentences.Whereas in the third phase,a summary is generated based on the keywords list.The generated summaries by LDA were lengthy;thus,a length enhancement method has been proposed.For the evaluation,the authors developed manual summaries of the existing“EDUVSUM”educational videos dataset.The authors compared the generated summaries with the manual-generated outlines using two methods,(i)Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation(ROUGE)and(ii)human evaluation.The performance of LDA-based generated summaries outperforms the summaries generated by TF-IDF and LSA.Besides reducing the summaries’length,the proposed length enhancement method did improve the summaries’precision rates.Other domains,such as news videos,can apply the proposed method for video summarization.展开更多
This paper is dedicated to a thorough review on the audio-visual related translations from both home and abroad.In reviewing the foreign achievements on this specific field of translation studies it can shed some ligh...This paper is dedicated to a thorough review on the audio-visual related translations from both home and abroad.In reviewing the foreign achievements on this specific field of translation studies it can shed some lights on our national audio-visual practice and research.The review on the Chinese scholars’ audio-visual translation studies is to offer the potential developing direction and guidelines to the studies and aspects neglected as well.Based on the summary of relevant studies,possible topics for further studies are proposed.展开更多
English movie translation is a new field, especially subtitle translation. In recent years, with a large number of introducing foreign language movie, people on the audio and visual arts understanding and demand is go...English movie translation is a new field, especially subtitle translation. In recent years, with a large number of introducing foreign language movie, people on the audio and visual arts understanding and demand is going on with each passing day change, people's level to the foreign movie appreciation increase quickly. This requires the accuracy and rationality in subtitle translation. Subtitle translation is a kind of special language conversion type, in theory contains three basic elements: interlanguages information transfer, discourse of simplified or concentrate, and speaking into the written language. This thesis through to the English subtitles translate the study of the method of subtitle translation principles to be followed and the present subtitle translation problems are discussed in order to improve the quality of English movie subtitling translation.展开更多
With the accelerated process of globalization, we are able to access to the wide variety of cultural forms from all over the world conveniently. The United States, a typical country of immigrants, enjoys the world'...With the accelerated process of globalization, we are able to access to the wide variety of cultural forms from all over the world conveniently. The United States, a typical country of immigrants, enjoys the world's first place of ethnic cultural melting. In this paper, the writer takes popular sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, for example to explore the humorous culture of the United States as well as its sources and characteristics from the perspective of subtitle translation.展开更多
The subtitling translation in American sitcom is of great significance which helps Chinese audiences to understand programs.Humor element is an essential part of the sitcom.However,the loss of humor is very common in ...The subtitling translation in American sitcom is of great significance which helps Chinese audiences to understand programs.Humor element is an essential part of the sitcom.However,the loss of humor is very common in subtitling translation,so the vivid and accurate translation for humor in sitcoms has become a challenge for the translators.This thesis analyzes the definition of humor and the main features of subtitling translation,and then discusses several examples of humor loss in the subtitling translation of Friends to put forward corresponding strategies.展开更多
文摘As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at exploring the effect of subtitled movies on listening comprehension of EFL learners.
文摘With the prosperous development of global film and television industry,the importance of subtitle translation is becoming more and more prominent.From the perspective of translation pragmatics,this paper explores the subtitle translation strategies and methods of the Chinese animation“Yao-Chinese folktales”as an example.It is found that the translators tend to adopt the naturalisation translation strategy based on the purpose of communication,and highlight the coherence of the translated text by omitting the translation based on the principle of coherence among the three principles of the theory of translation.At the same time,a small amount of phonetic translation is also used in the translation,which is faithful to the original text and disseminates Chinese culture.
基金The Educational Reform of Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications for Postgraduate Programs,“Integrating Chinese and English Discourses:An Exploration of the Optimization Path for the MTI Training Model Driven by PBL Theory”(Project No.:YJGJ2024034)。
文摘In recent years,subtitling has emerged as a prominent topic in the field of translation studies.This paper conducts a quantitative analysis of literature related to“subtitling”retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),focusing on sources indexed in the CSSCI and Peking University Core Journals databases.Utilizing the bibliometric tool CiteSpace,the study reviews the research hotspots and developmental trends in Chinese subtitling studies over the past two decades.The findings reveal that,driven by the growth of the film and television industry,deepening cross-cultural communication,and continuous technological advancements,research in this field has gradually shifted from theoretical exploration to practical application.The focus has become increasingly refined,diversified,and intelligent,expanding into interdisciplinary and multimodal translation studies.The paper also discusses current limitations in the research and outlines future directions,offering targeted suggestions to provide valuable references for further studies and practical endeavors in this domain.
文摘Movie,as a media,plays an important and irreplaceable role in culture dissemination.Therefore,a successful film subtitle translation deserves much of the credit.Based on Darwin’s adaptation and selection and combined with the adaptation theory,professor Hu proposed and developed Eco-translatology,which studies translation from the perspective of ecology.This theory defined translation as a translator's adaptation and selection activities in a translational eco-environment,which is the world present by the source text,the source language,and the target language,namely the integrity of language,communication,culture,society,readers,the author and so on.
文摘Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries have become increasingly frequent,which boosts the development of film industry and highlights the importance of subtitle translation.However,in China,subtitling is a relatively new research field of translation.This study explores the guiding role of domestication and foreignization strategies in English film subtitle translation.On the basis of material from Ice Age,the paper carries on the analysis of film subtitle translation in terms of expressions with typical cultural features and idioms&proverbs under the effective guidance of domestication and foreignization translation strategies.It’s concluded that domestication and foreignization strategies can provide theoretical guidance for subtitling and appropriate combination of the two strategies can achieve better translation effects.
文摘Bilingual subtitling is often employed as an economical and effective method in media language transfer. It could be regarded as a branch of translation and often employs translation theories and strategies when carrying out the blingual task. However, there are several other factors that from media industry and administration need to be combined with translation during the process of subtitling. This paper uses the Italian movie"The Scientific Card Player"as an example to give an analysis of several factors which are involved in movie subtitling, including the poly-semiotic nature of audiovisual material, movie censorship, subtitling and translating techniques and strategies.
文摘As a large number of foreign films have flooded into the Chinese film market, subtitling translation plays an important role in helping the audience understand and learn about some information and cultures from different countries. This paper mainly uses Peter Newmark's"equivalent effect"as a theoretical foundation to analyze the features of two kitties'(Garfield and Prince) source language (English) and target language (Chinese) in the film Garfield Ⅱ based on their living surroundings and social status.
文摘Puns always play a vital role in sitcoms in order to create humor or ironies.Sometimes good translations of puns can decide whether target language audiences are able to obtain the equal understandings and reactions of the sitcoms as source language audiences get.Nevertheless,it is not easy for many translators to render faithfully and smoothly some English puns into Chinese.Therefore,this paper will analyze the subtitle translation of puns in the British sitcom Mind Your Language from the perspective of Speech Act Theory so as to find out some useful and helpful strategies for translation of puns in subtitling.
文摘More and more foreign movies and TV series has been translated into Chinese,but there is still no mature theory to guide the subtitle translation.The subtitle of Twilight Saga has been selected as examples to discuss how to apply Eugene A.Ni da's"Functional Equivalence Theory"into the movie translation to achieve expected effect.
文摘As a special kind of text,the importance of translating subtitles is becoming more and more prominent.The subtitle translation is widely favored by the audience as one of the main form of film translation.Translated film text is not under the constraints by the time of the movie screen’s switching.Unlike the translation of literary works,it can make some explanation in some obscure place.Therefore,the translation of the film dialogue must let the audience clear about the content upon taking a look.Translators should be based on the national audience,and from the artistic point of view of the audience’s appreciation of art,choose the native language that is most similar to domestic audiences,close to the original film art,and easy to accept.Therefore,research on the subject will have a significant effect on subtitles translation strategies.
文摘This paper will try to apply Andre Lefevere's rewriting theory to study subtitling.Through the analysis of The Last Emperor and its two Chinese translations,we will explore how ideology manipulates subtitle translation.
文摘Nowadays,people use online resources such as educational videos and courses.However,such videos and courses are mostly long and thus,summarizing them will be valuable.The video contents(visual,audio,and subtitles)could be analyzed to generate textual summaries,i.e.,notes.Videos’subtitles contain significant information.Therefore,summarizing subtitles is effective to concentrate on the necessary details.Most of the existing studies used Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF)and Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA)models to create lectures’summaries.This study takes another approach and applies LatentDirichlet Allocation(LDA),which proved its effectiveness in document summarization.Specifically,the proposed LDA summarization model follows three phases.The first phase aims to prepare the subtitle file for modelling by performing some preprocessing steps,such as removing stop words.In the second phase,the LDA model is trained on subtitles to generate the keywords list used to extract important sentences.Whereas in the third phase,a summary is generated based on the keywords list.The generated summaries by LDA were lengthy;thus,a length enhancement method has been proposed.For the evaluation,the authors developed manual summaries of the existing“EDUVSUM”educational videos dataset.The authors compared the generated summaries with the manual-generated outlines using two methods,(i)Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation(ROUGE)and(ii)human evaluation.The performance of LDA-based generated summaries outperforms the summaries generated by TF-IDF and LSA.Besides reducing the summaries’length,the proposed length enhancement method did improve the summaries’precision rates.Other domains,such as news videos,can apply the proposed method for video summarization.
文摘This paper is dedicated to a thorough review on the audio-visual related translations from both home and abroad.In reviewing the foreign achievements on this specific field of translation studies it can shed some lights on our national audio-visual practice and research.The review on the Chinese scholars’ audio-visual translation studies is to offer the potential developing direction and guidelines to the studies and aspects neglected as well.Based on the summary of relevant studies,possible topics for further studies are proposed.
文摘English movie translation is a new field, especially subtitle translation. In recent years, with a large number of introducing foreign language movie, people on the audio and visual arts understanding and demand is going on with each passing day change, people's level to the foreign movie appreciation increase quickly. This requires the accuracy and rationality in subtitle translation. Subtitle translation is a kind of special language conversion type, in theory contains three basic elements: interlanguages information transfer, discourse of simplified or concentrate, and speaking into the written language. This thesis through to the English subtitles translate the study of the method of subtitle translation principles to be followed and the present subtitle translation problems are discussed in order to improve the quality of English movie subtitling translation.
文摘With the accelerated process of globalization, we are able to access to the wide variety of cultural forms from all over the world conveniently. The United States, a typical country of immigrants, enjoys the world's first place of ethnic cultural melting. In this paper, the writer takes popular sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, for example to explore the humorous culture of the United States as well as its sources and characteristics from the perspective of subtitle translation.
文摘The subtitling translation in American sitcom is of great significance which helps Chinese audiences to understand programs.Humor element is an essential part of the sitcom.However,the loss of humor is very common in subtitling translation,so the vivid and accurate translation for humor in sitcoms has become a challenge for the translators.This thesis analyzes the definition of humor and the main features of subtitling translation,and then discusses several examples of humor loss in the subtitling translation of Friends to put forward corresponding strategies.
