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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Subtitles"”.
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Using EMBT to produce foreign language subtitles
… timeframe for the production of foreign language subtitles, pressure on subtitle companies is at an all-time high. Although translation technologies are ubiquitous in other areas of translation, especially localisation, and have been helping translators work more efficiently for a number of years …
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Recycling texts: human evaluation of example-based machine translation subtitles for DVD
… seeks to establish (1) whether target language subtitles produced by an EBMT system are considered intelligible and acceptable by viewers of movies on DVD, and (2)whether a relationship exists between the ‘profiles’ of corpora used to train an EBMT system, on the one hand, and viewers’ …
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A Network of Actors Influencing English Subtitles of Dialects and Other Culture-Specific References in Chinese Films
… exposure highlights the importance of English subtitles and how they deal with the films’ culture-specific elements. Contrary to these characteristics of the original films, however, their English subtitles often display a neutralising tendency in subtitling dialects and other culture-specific …
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Automatic subtitling: A new paradigm
… on MT systems which translate source language subtitles, already transcribed and timed by humans. With recent developments in speech translation (ST), the time is ripe for extended automation in subtitling, with end-to-end solutions for obtaining target language subtitles directly from the …
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Symphonic Fantasia Han-Kook Oui Ja-Yeon (Nature in Korea): Score and Critical Commentary
… sections - each section has programmatic subtitles (Rocks, River, Sea, Wind, and Mountain) and its own idée fixe motive. The degree of texture (homophonic/polyphonic), dynamics (strong/weak), density (thick/thin), velocity (fast/slow), and orchestration (emphasizing various sections of the …
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Multimedia for language learning
… foreign-language material. One tool is Smart Subtitles, which help learners learn vocabulary while watching videos. Our user evaluations have shown that Smart Subtitles help learners learn vocabulary more effectively than a popular approach for learning from video (dual subtitles). The other …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… of Chinese subtitling by focusing on the Chinese subtitles of English-language films and TV series. The present study explores two different scenarios of subtitling in Mainland China - authorised translation (i.e. the subtitles shown in cinema and those included in officially distributed DVDs) and …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… of Chinese subtitling by focusing on the Chinese subtitles of English-language films and TV series. The present study explores two different scenarios of subtitling in Mainland China - authorised translation (i.e. the subtitles shown in cinema and those included in officially distributed DVDs) and …
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The transformations of the expression of humour in audiovisual translation /
… meanings and compensate linguistic losses in subtitles. The research has shown that visual information of an audiovisual text, especially gestures and emotions of characters seen by the spectator can compensate linguistic losses in subtitles. It has also been determined that certain phonic …
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A comparative analysis of film subtitle translation from English to Chinese : a case study of 15 popular animation films
… strategies to improve the quality of translated subtitles from the perspective of cultural awareness. I propose three main hypotheses in this research: 1) that the length of a film subtitle translated into Chinese is generally greater than the corresponding original English text; 2) that …
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An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema
This thesis examines subtitles written for heritage films from France and Spain, using six films as case studies. Beginning by offering an overview of the history of subtitling, bringing together a range of different accounts of the field, it aims to situate current approaches to subtitling in …
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I sottotitoli dei film italiani in nederlandese (2000-2006) : un' analisi sociologica, linguistica e mediatica
… and its translation, more specifically its Dutch subtitles. Traditionally, many disciplines have featured in films: economics, engineering, computer science, psychology, sociology, cognitive sciences, semiotics , linguistics, translation studies, and so on. In this PhD, we look at film as a …
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Liompa
Shot in Russian with English subtitles, Liompa is a fifteen-minute dramatic film based on the 1928 short story by Russian novelist Yuri Olesha (1899-1960). "Liompa" explores the relationship between an individual and the things that he owns or desires to own throughout his life. The film looks at …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… representation. Secondary focus is given to the subtitles, highlighting the roles of interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation strategies in shaping gender discourse. Findings reveal Disney’s clear attempt at progressiveness in gender representation – such as increased female …
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Relevant abuse? Investigating the effects of an abusive subtitling procedure on the perception of TV anime using eye tracker and questionnaire
… procedures that we will term as "abusive" subtitles (Nornes 1999). Abusive subtitles break subtitling norms in an attempt to be more faithful to the source text and increase the translator's visibility. This thesis focuses on one such abusive procedure, namely the pop-up gloss. It refers to …
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“Is this Bizarro World?” : The adaptation of characterisation and intertextuality in German audiovisual translation
… the original English, German dubbing and German subtitles allows the viability of my model for characterisation to be assessed with regard to the audiovisual-specific aspects they incorporate; examples include the visual features of a character's milieu (e.g. the furnishings with which characters …
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Children Diagnosed With Attachment Disorder: A Qualitative Study of the Parental Experience
… develop three core categories that described the subtitles of parent's experiences. Parent's quotes were used to further embellish the findings. The findings include parent's experiences in recognizing RAD behavior, their response to this behavior, and advice and recommendations they would share …
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System for rapid subtitling
… audiovisual sequences. Human-edited timing of subtitles is a dull and laborious exercise, yet with some human-guidance, basic systems may accurately align transcripts and translations in the presence of divergent speakers, multiple languages, and background noise. Since no known, …
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A Study into the Challenges of Subtitling English into Arabic
This study examines the quality of subtitles from English into Arabic. The motivation behind selecting this topic area is that subtitling of English language programmes into Arabic is under-researched. Therefore it is in need of further research in order to enhance subtitlers’ skills and …
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Norms of subtitling taboo language and the role of censorship in Jordan : a case study of the Arabic subtitling of 'Friends'
… Television and Institution B's Arabic subtitles of the American sitcomFriends. This study aims to compare the textual-linguistic and preliminary norms inJordanian Television and Institution B, on one hand, and to identify the changes inthese norms across time in Jordanian Television and …
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