Open Access
Film Dialogue Translation And The Intonation Unit : Towards Equivalent Effect In English And Chinese
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
A pragmatic methodology derived from the integration of the theories and analytical systems of information flow in the tradition of the functionalist approach to speech and writing with the relevant theoretical and empirical findings from TS and other related branches of linguistics is provided.Abstract:
This thesis proposes a new approach to film dialogue translation (PDT) with special reference to the translation process and product quality of English-toChinese dubbing. In response to the persistent translation failures that led to widespread criticism of dubbed films and TV plays in China for their artificial 'translation talk', this study provides a pragmatic methodology derived from the integration of the theories and analytical systems of information flow in the tradition of the functionalist approach to speech and writing with the relevant theoretical and empirical findings from TS and other related branches of linguistics. It has developed and validated a translation model (FITNIA TS) which makes the intonation unit (IU) the central unit of film dialogueread more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Theory and Practice of Translation
TL;DR: The recent collection of articles, The Art of Translation [Masterstvo perevoda], follows publication of two other books on the subject, The Problems of Translation of Creative Writing [Voprosy khudozhestvennogo pereVoda] and another work also bearing the title The art of Translation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Tbe Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction
Vivian Zamel,Jon Jonz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of data collection and analysis procedures for Communicative Events in early Linguistic development and present a set of categories of communication: Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues, Code Switching and Style Shifting, Code Markers, and Formulaic Expressions.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Concept of Consciousness in the Theory of Language@@@Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing
Christopher Gauker,Wallace Chafe +1 more
TL;DR: Chafe as mentioned in this paper demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works, relying on close analyses of conversational speech, as well as written fiction and non-fiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination.
References
More filters
Book
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
TL;DR: Part 1 The clause: constituency towards a functional grammar clause as message clause as exchange clause as representation and above, below and beyond the clause: below the clause - groups and phrases above the clauses - the clause complex additional.
Book
A textbook of translation
TL;DR: A textbook of translation as discussed by the authors, a text of translation, is a textbook of the translation of translation in Arabic and Persian language from the Middle East to the Middle-East, and
Journal ArticleDOI
Corpus, concordance, collocation
John Sinclair,Ronald Carter +1 more
TL;DR: The emergence of a new view of language and the computer technology associated with it is charted in this study.
Book
Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach
TL;DR: The contribution of folklore to sociolinguistic research is discussed in this article, with a focus on poetics and the contribution of poetics to linguistics as a science of language and social life.