An empirical look at a (false) belief in audiovisual translation
Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: Setting the sceneAudiovisual translation is a recent field of research within Translation Studies.As a result, up till now there has been no theory which can provide a comprehensive framework of analysis that accounts for all specificities imposed by the medium as well as for the many intricacies or variables involved in its translating activity.Thus, researchers on the audiovisual medium have generally relied on translation theories which were originally developed for the study of literary translations.Another consequence of the tradition and supremacy of the literary system has been its influence on researchers in the new field to focus mainly on the fictional genre, and mostly on the feature film.Moreover, due to a more or less generalized belief that "presenting reality would automatically lead to the direct, literal, faithful, trustful translation of this reality", it is taken for granted that translated foreign material within non-fictional output (e.g.interviews in news and documentaries) will constitute unproblematic or uninteresting data for the purposes of research.This paper attempts to demonstrate, above all, how mistaken such a belief may be.Precisely because non-fiction deals with the notion of assumed reality, there are many more variables to take
Source: Americanae (AECID Library)
DOI: 10.5007/5389
Author: Franco, Eliana P. C.
Institution: Universidade Federal da Bahia
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1542029616