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Voogt, Joelle (2017)

TECHNICAL TRANSLATION IN SUBTITLING: AN ANALYSIS OF CSI:NY AND THE REAL CSI SUBTITLES

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

When it comes to scientific TV shows, there is bit of an information gap. There are some texts, but in pales in comparison to the amount of works concerning the subtitling of humor. With the many crime shows out there, this is quite surprising. Even though there are not a lot of sources concerning scientific translation, there are plenty concerning technical translation, such as Montgomery and Desblache. I will be using these to create an overview of how experts advise translators to translate technical terms. In order to hopefully discover a pattern in how this genre is translated, I will do a case study on two different TV shows, both of which are scientific. The shows I will be using are CSI:NY, a fictional scientific crime drama, and The Real CSI, a non-fictional crime documentary. I will analyse the translation processes used in the official subtitles of both TV shows individually, to find out what procedures are used, using Chesterman’s model of translation, and analyse why...Show moreWhen it comes to scientific TV shows, there is bit of an information gap. There are some texts, but in pales in comparison to the amount of works concerning the subtitling of humor. With the many crime shows out there, this is quite surprising. Even though there are not a lot of sources concerning scientific translation, there are plenty concerning technical translation, such as Montgomery and Desblache. I will be using these to create an overview of how experts advise translators to translate technical terms. In order to hopefully discover a pattern in how this genre is translated, I will do a case study on two different TV shows, both of which are scientific. The shows I will be using are CSI:NY, a fictional scientific crime drama, and The Real CSI, a non-fictional crime documentary. I will analyse the translation processes used in the official subtitles of both TV shows individually, to find out what procedures are used, using Chesterman’s model of translation, and analyse why these choices were made. Then, I will compare my analyses of the two shows and compare the procedures used in order to hopefully find a pattern in how these shows are subtitled.Show less

technical translation

subtitling

csi

Author

Voogt, Joelle

Note

I hope to be able to establish a pattern in how the procedures are used within the fictional and non-fictional subtitles. With my findings I hope to be able to provide a more constructive approach as to how one should go about translating genre-specific terms.

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Translation in Theory and Practice

Supervisors

Dorst, A.G.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en