Film subtitles and the conundrum of linguistic and cultural representation

Guillot, Marie‐Noëlle

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“…The analysis of the examples reveals in some instances, in example one and in particular in example two, some partial transfer of film dialogue taboo language into subtitles which I am arguing may indicate the practice of subtitlers cueing audience reactions to the discourse practice of certain characters. In Guillot (2012a, 2012b)/Fowler's (1991 terms, normal communicative competence is sufficient in audience members to recognise the triggers that are provided. The combination of the particular film genre of social realism and the concordant register properties of field and tenor, plus the register and background of the characters involved in the exchanges do, in these two examples, appear to set up perceived expectations of discourse representations which will feature taboo language.…”

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“…For example, case study work by the following focuses, in part or wholly, on the transfer of taboo language in audiovisual translation: Mailhac (2000); Díaz Cintas (2001); Chen (2004); Scandura (2004);Pujol (2006); Taylor (2006a);Fong (2009);and Greenall (2011). The argument underlined by Hatim and Mason above, that micro-analysis of the subtitling of de-contextualised segments has limitations and that a macro approach to the entire subtitling text as a system is desirable for understanding the impact of choices made by subtitlers is one which has in particular been advanced by Pérez-González (2007) for dubbing and Guillot (2008;2010;2012a;2012b) for subtitling. Their work provides important theoretical background for the topic under investigation here.…”

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“…Like Pérez-González for dubbing, Guillot (2012a;2012b) highlights for subtitling the interdependence of linguistic choices and narrative/filmic structure. She draws on Fowler's (1991; cognitively-driven Theory of Mode which foregrounds multimodality at the level of text itself and takes into account the interaction of text features and readers' perception rather than text features alone (Guillot 2012a: 109) to demonstrate the expressive richness and capacity for representation of subtitles as systems of multimodal textual representation setting their own modes of interpretation.…”

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Subtitling Taboo Language: Using the Cues of Register and Genre to Affect Audience Experience?

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2016

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Using French-English/English-French examples, this article puts forward the hypothesis that, in the film genre of social realism (depicting low socio-economic groups), subtitlers use linguistic and visual cues which are embedded in genre to trigger audience reactions to representations of taboo language. Examples of the subtitling of taboo language are drawn from three films and the hypothesis above will be explored along three main interrelated axes: i) the value of treating subtitles as an entire system; ii) the relationship between the specific film genre of social realism (depicting low socio-economic groups) and audience perceptions of taboo language use; and iii) discourse representations through register and its effect on characterisation. Nuances are brought to evidence from existing research which argues that the choices relating to taboo language made in the oral to written mode shift are subject to politeness restrictions in terms of register, and that these choices have a homogenising/levelling effect on characterisation (Lambert 1990; Taylor 2006a; Mailhac 2000 for example).

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Subtitling Taboo Language: Using the Cues of Register and Genre to Affect Audience Experience?

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2016

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“…The subtitle data are analysed first, so that they can be assessed on their own terms in the first instance, with source dialogues or naturally occurring speech practices used to supplement observations, as in earlier work (Guillot 2012a;2012b). The discussion also applies to subtitles at the level of text primarily, to trace their potential as a meaning resource in itself, as a necessary step for assessing it in its interplay with other semiotic resources.…”

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“…None has yet on subtitles from a cross-cultural pragmatics and representational perspective. Evaluating audiences' perceptions of, and responses to, linguistic and cultural otherness is methodologically complex given the range of factors involved and the sociocultural heterogeneity of viewing publics (Guillot 2012b). What is at stake in view of the global circulation of foreign films and cultural products makes it worth undertaking.…”

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Communicative Rituals and Audiovisual Translation – Representation of Otherness in Film Subtitles

Guillot

2017

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RÉSUMÉDans une étude comparative de salutations dans les échanges entre amis en Australie et en France (Béal et Traverso 2010), les pratiques interactionnelles observées dans le corpus rassemblé présentent certes des points communs, mais aussi des spécificités verbales et nonverbales dont la récurrence est interprétée comme révélant un lien entre styles conversationnels et valeurs culturelles sous-jacentes.Comme le fait également la pragmatique comparée en général, cette conclusion soulève des questions de représentation pour l'audiovisuel et la traduction audiovisuelle: comment les routines conversationnelles sont-elles projetées dans les dialogues de film et dans leurs traductions par le biais du sous-titrage ou du doublage? Quel est l'impact de ces représentations sur les spectateurs? Ces questions servent de base à une étude de cas qui s'attache dans cet article aux salutations et autres routines conversationnelles dans les soustitres en anglais de trois films contemporains, deux en français, un en espagnol. Elles sont abordées dans une perspective de pragmatique comparée et avec pour toile de fond la théorie du mode de Fowler (1991de Fowler ( , 2000, aux fins d'évaluer le potentiel textuel des sous-titres de film à signifier dans une perspective interculturelle. ABSTRACTIn a contrastive study of front door rituals between friends in Australia and France (Béal and Traverso 2010), the interactional practices observed in the corpus collected are shown to exhibit distinctive verbal and non-verbal features, despite similarities. The recurrence of these features is interpreted as evidence of a link between conversational style and underlying cultural values.Like contrastive work in cross-cultural pragmatics more generally, this conclusion raises questions of representation from an audiovisual and audiovisual translation perspective: how are standard conversational routines depicted in film dialogues and in their translation in subtitling or dubbing? What are the implications of these textual representations for audiences? These questions serve as platform for the case study in this article, of greetings and other communicative rituals in a dataset of two French and one Spanish contemporary films and their subtitles in English. They are addressed from an interactional cross-cultural pragmatics perspective and draw on Fowler's Theory of Mode (1991Mode ( , 2000 to assess subtitles' potential to mean cross-culturally as text.

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Surface behavior of amphiphiles in aqueous solution: a comparison between different pentanol isomers

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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

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Position isomerism is ubiquitous in atmospheric oxidation reactions. Therefore, we have compared surface-active oxygenated amphiphilic isomers (1-and 3-pentanol) at the aqueous surface with surface-and chemically sensitive X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), which reveals information about the surface structure on a molecular level. The experimental data is complemented with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A concentration-dependent orientation and solvation of the amphiphiles at the aqueous surface is observed. At bulk concentrations as low as around 100 mM, a monolayer starts to form for both isomers, with the hydroxyl groups pointing towards the bulk water and the alkyl chains pointing towards the vacuum. The monolayer (ML) packing density of 3-pentanol is approx. 70 % of the one observed for 1-pentanol, with a molar surface concentration that is approx. 90 times higher than the bulk concentration for both molecules. The molecular area at ML coverage (≈ 100 mM) was calculated to be around 32 ± 2 Å 2 /molecule for 1-pentanol and around 46 ± 2 Å 2 /molecule for 3-pentanol, which results in a higher surface concentration (molecules/cm 2 )for the linear isomer. In general we conclude therefore that isomers -with comparable surface activities -that have smaller molecular areas will be more abundant at the interface in comparison to isomers with larger molecular areas, which might be of crucial importance for the understanding of key properties of aerosols, such as evaporation and uptake capabilities as well as their reactivity.

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Film subtitles and the conundrum of linguistic and cultural representation

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Subtitling Taboo Language: Using the Cues of Register and Genre to Affect Audience Experience?

Subtitling Taboo Language: Using the Cues of Register and Genre to Affect Audience Experience?

Communicative Rituals and Audiovisual Translation – Representation of Otherness in Film Subtitles

Surface behavior of amphiphiles in aqueous solution: a comparison between different pentanol isomers

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