Phrasal verbs in Italian dubbed dialogues: a multimedia corpus-based study

Abstract

The presence of colloquialisms, set phrases and idioms has often been investigated in AVT studies as a gauge for determining the levels of naturalness and verisimilitude of original film and dubbed dialogues compared to naturally-occurring speech. Up until recently, however, the results of these studies have almost exclusively been based on the analysis of transcribed film data. It will be the aim of this study to explore the frequency of use of a specific linguistic trait of colloquial Italian, i.e. phrasal verbs, in a corpus of original Italian films and original French films and their dubbed Italian versions by considering the totality of the meaning-making resources deployed in the filmic text. To this extent, the corpora used will be a subset of the multimedia annotated database Forlixt 1, developed at SITLEC (University of Bologna at Forlì). Here, the combination of features, such as access to integral filmic data, availability of transcriptions, and annotation of relevant linguistic, cultural, pragmatic and semiotic traits will be explored to study phrasal verbs. Specific constraints of dubbing will furthermore be taken into account, i.e. representation of authentic conversation, influence of the source language, and preservation of the wholeness of the original audiovisual text.

Speech Act (Im)Politeness and Audiovisual Constraints in Translation for Dubbing

“…Minutella argued that interference may sometimes originate from the need to respect lip-synchronization constraints. In a similar vein, Valentini (2013) provided examples of verb-particle contractions in Italian films dubbed from French which are calqued on their source counterparts, for reasons of isochrony. Pavesi (1994, p. 137) and subsequently Rossi (2006, p. 310) observed that the English post-utterance question tag in original film versions "will you?"…”

The VIW project

“…Corpus linguistics has been used to study audiovisual translations with diverging approaches in terms of scope and data processing. A prototypical example is the Forlì Corpus of Screen Translation (Heiss and Soffritti, 2008;Valentini, 2008Valentini, , 2013, an electronic database of original films and TV series, and their dubbed and subtitled versions in different languages (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, and Italian).…”

Adjectival Collocations of The Word Bali in The Western Movies: Evidence from Three Corpora

“…Moreover, other scholars also discussed fruitful benefits of collocation beyond its language advantages in the artwork, such as movies and representation of things and individuals. Empirical literature scrutinizes the collocation of the movie's dubbing translation of American and British movies to Italian (Freddi, 2013) and French to Italian (Valentini, 2013). Further, collocation is also functioned to make representation.…”