Open AccessStrategies for rendering multilingualism in subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Szarkowska,
Jagoda Żbikowska,
Izabela Krejtz
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v0i13.70
Subject(s) - multilingualism , rendering (computer graphics) , linguistics , psychology , coding (social sciences) , computer science , audiology , medicine , artificial intelligence , sociology , philosophy , social science
In this paper we present a set of strategies for rendering the presence of multiple languages in multilingual films in subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH): vehicular matching, explicit attribution, colour-coding and linguistic homogenisation. We also report on an online study among deaf and hard of hearing Polish participants regarding their preferences for specific SDH strategies. The findings show that, even when they do not know the foreign language involved, most participants prefer more informative strategies where indications of multilingualism are made explicit.