Subtitling Television Series

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Charts
• Figures
• Screenshots
• Tables
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1. The corpus-driven approach
• 1.2. Aim and research questions
• 1.3. Chapter organisation
• Chapter 2 Norms: A cross-disciplinary concern
• 2.1. Norms in Film and Television Studies
• 2.2. Norms in Linguistics
• 2.3. Norms in Translation Studies
• Chapter 3 The verbal component of the audiovisual text
• 3.1. The audiovisual text
• 3.2. Verbal language within the audiovisual text
• 3.3. Linguistic features of subtitling
• 3.3.1. The hybrid nature of subtitling
• 3.3.2. Syntactic features of subtitling
• 3.3.3. Lexical features of subtitling
• 3.4. Subtitling scripted dialogue: The challenge of fictive orality
• 3.4.1. The continuum between spoken and written language
• 3.4.2. Fictive orality
• Chapter 4 Corpus presentation
• 4.1. Genre-oriented criteria in corpus compilation
• 4.2. Police procedurals
• 4.3. The Corpus of Police Procedurals (CoPP)
• 4.3.1. The series under study: Dexter (2006), The Mentalist (2008), and Castle (2009)
• 4.3.2. Methodological considerations: Corpus compilation, alignment, and exploitation
• 4.3.3. Language variation and interaction contexts in the CoPP series
• 4.3.4. Subtitling standards
• Chapter 5 Morphosyntactic analysis I: Quantitative approach
• 5.1. Distribution of parts of speech
• 5.1.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 5.1.2. Results and discussion
• 5.2. Sentence distribution and complexity
• 5.2.1. Number of sentences per subtitle
• 5.2.2. Types of clauses
• 5.2.3. Sentence length
• 5.2.4. Coordination
• 5.2.5. Subordination
• 5.2.6. Verbs per sentence
• 5.2.7. Nominal clauses
• 5.3 Summary
• Chapter 6 Morphosyntactic analysis II: Qualitative approach
• 6.1. Fictive orality in the syntax of the CoPP
• 6.1.1. Methodological considerations
• 6.1.2. Altered constituent order
• 6.1.3. Ellipsis
• 6.1.4. Question tags
• 6.1.5. Number disagreement
• 6.2. Segmentation in the CoPP
• 6.2.1. Methodological considerations
• 6.2.2. Segmentation in two-line subtitles
• 6.2.3. Segmentation of sentences across subtitles
• 6.3. Summary
• Chapter 7 Lexical analysis I: Quantitative approach
• 7.1. Aboutness
• 7.1.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 7.1.2. Results
• 7.1.3. Discussion
• 7.2. Lexical density and vocabulary richness
• 7.2.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 7.2.2. Results
• 7.2.3. Discussion
• 7.3. Information load
• 7.3.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 7.2.2. Results
• 7.2.3. Discussion
• 7.4. Terminological density
• 7.4.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 7.4.2. Results
• 7.4.3. Discussion
• 7.5. Summary
• Chapter 8 Lexical analysis II: Qualitative approach
• 8.1. Offensive and affective lexicon
• 8.1.1. Feature description and research methodology
• 8.1.2. Occurrence in the ST and their translation in the TT
• 8.2. Creative lexicon
• 8.2.1. Theoretical and methodological framework for the analysis of lexical exploitation
• 8.2.2. Adapting corpus pattern analysis for the study of TV dialogue and subtitling
• 8.2.3. Lexical exploitation and conventionalised ‘pseudocreativity’
• 8.2.4. Lexical exploitation in the CoPP
• 8.3. Summary
• Chapter 9 Conclusions
• 9.1. Fictive orality in TV dialogue and subtitling: Main findings
• 9.2. The perception of subtitles as exhibiting neutral register
• 9.3. A genre-oriented approach
• 9.4. Back to norms
• 9.5. Limitations and future research
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series Index