Coherence and audience reception in subtitling : with special reference to connectives
Due to time and space constraints, subtitling is often subject to reduction, which in turn may lead to information loss and hamper comprehension of subtitles. However, little research has been done to investigate the potential conflict between subtitle reduction and comprehension. Therefore, with the aim of exploring both âcohesion in textâ and âcoherence in mindâ, a two-phase study was designed to investigate textual reduction and audience reception with particular reference to connectives (e.g. moreover, but, because, and at first). More specifically, the present study aims to find to out how connectives are translated in different genres of factual TV programmes and whether and to what extent their reduction may affect audience comprehension. The first part of this study involved textual analysis of source texts and target texts of two TV genres: scripted documentaries and âspontaneousâ (i.e. unscripted) travel programmes. The occurrences of connectives in STs and TTs were manually counted and statistically analysed. The results showed that the addition or omission of connectives was related to the difference between these two genres: documentaries were translated more explicitly with more connectives
Kao, Huan-Li
Coherence and audience reception in subtitling : with special reference to connectives. Due to time and space constraints, subtitling is often subject to reduction, which in turn may lead to information loss and hamper comprehension of subtitles. However, little research has been done to investigate the potential conflict between subtitle reduction and comprehension. Therefore, with the aim of exploring both âcohesion in textâ and âcoherence in mindâ, a two-phase study was designed to investigate textual reduction and audience reception with particular reference to connectives (e.g. moreover, but, because, and at first). More specifically, the present study aims to find to out how connectives are translated in different genres of factual TV programmes and whether and to what extent their reduction may affect audience comprehension. The first part of this study involved textual analysis of source texts and target texts of two TV genres: scripted documentaries and âspontaneousâ (i.e. unscripted) travel programmes. The occurrences of connectives in STs and TTs were manually counted and statistically analysed. The results showed that the addition or omission of connectives was related to the difference between these two genres: documentaries were translated more explicitly with more connectives
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