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Subtitle Translation Analysis

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Subtitle translation is a special cross-cultural communication process, and therefore must follow the law of human communication, the best relevance skill and multimodal perspective. When interpreting the film, the subtitle translator analyzes the best correlation between the source language dialogue and the source language audience cognitive context. When the translator predicts the cognitive context of the target language audience in dynamic coding, trying to generate the best relationship with the audience So as to obtain a larger contextual effect with a moderate cognitive effort and eventually realize the communicative intention of the original film and TV producers. Through the analysis of translation examples, it is found that the translators …show more content…

The so-called constraint is the particularity of the language of film and television: immediacy and mass, subtitle translation subject to time and space constraints. Subtitle translation needs to be colloquial, combined with the actor 's mouthpiece and reflecting the character and emotion of the task. Subtitle language largely reflects the culture of a country, and the translator faces not only the subtitle texts but also the source texts and the translated texts in the process of translation. As one of the most important factors in translator 's translation process, cross-cultural communication awareness should receive more and more attention.
After the subtitle translation is outlined, the article analyzes the characteristics of subtitle translation and the corresponding translation strategies from three aspects: space-time constraints, information functions and cultural factors. Subtitle translation should provide the most relevant information most effectively in a limited space. Finally, the actual translation examples were …show more content…

This paper will explore the relevance of theory to subtitle translation practice through the study of the best relevance of subtitle translation, which will promote the further development of relevance theory and subtitle translation. According to the characteristics of subtitles and cognitive characteristics of context better choice of context, to find effective translation strategies to achieve the maximum context and the best correlation. On the one hand, this paper guides contemporary translators in the subtitle translation process, and on the other hand, it makes the audience understand movie content in a more active and effortless way. In this way, the unique cross-cultural exchange of primitive culture through movie subtitles can be

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