Abstracts
Abstract
This article explores the complexity of the audio-visual text, comprised of both verbal and non-verbal components, and how this impacts upon foreign language subtitling and dubbing. Reference is made to a selection of audio-visual genres: the film, television series, news programme and documentary, in order to demonstrate the extent to which a particular genre influences translation. This article examines the interaction between language and image, between the verbal (concentrating on the spoken word) and the non-verbal (with specific reference to gesture and vocal intonation). The multi-semiotic nature of the audio-visual medium is stressed throughout.
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- audio-visual genres,
- cultural signs,
- dubbing,
- non-verbal,
- subtitling
Résumé
Tout texte audiovisuel, formé d’éléments verbaux et non verbaux, est complexe. Comment ces éléments influent-ils sur le sous-titrage et le doublage interlinguistique ? À partir d’une sélection de genres audiovisuels (long métrage, série télévisée, informations et documentaire), nous cherchons d’une part à établir jusqu’où le genre audiovisuel peut déterminer la traduction et d’autre part à mieux cerner l’interaction entre le langage et l’image, entre le verbal (restreint au mot parlé) et le non-verbal (en faisant référence aux gestes et à l’intonation). Le caractère multi-sémiotique du média audiovisuel ne saurait être sous-estimé.
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10.7202/003577ar