Subtitling (Translation Practices Explained)

Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. The book, inspired by the highly successful Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling by the same authors, is a new publication reflecting the developments in practice and research that mark subtitling today, while considering the way ahead.

It supplies the core concepts that will allow its users to acquaint themselves with the technical, linguistic and cultural features of this specific yet extremely diverse form of audiovisual translation and the many contexts in which it is deployed today. The book offers concrete subtitling strategies and contains a wealth of examples in numerous languages for dealing with specific translation problems. State-of-the art translation technologies and their impact on the profession are explored along with a discussion of the ways in which they cater for the socio-political, multicultural and multilingual challenges that audiovisual productions and their translations must meet today.

A truly multimedia package, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices comes with a companion website which includes a wide range of exercises with answer keys, video clips, dialogue lists, a glossary of concepts and terminology used in the industry and much more. It also provides access to a professional desktop subtitle editor, Wincaps Q4, and a leading cloud-based subtitling platform, OOONA.

Jorge Díaz Cintas is Professor of Translation and founder director (2013-2016) of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) at University College London. He is the author of numerous articles, special issues and books on audiovisual translation. He is the chief editor of the Peter Lang series New Trends in Translation Studies and a member of the European Union expert group LIND (Language Industry). He is the recipient of the Jan Ivarsson Award (2014) and the Xènia Martínez Award (2015) for invaluable services to the field of audiovisual translation.

Aline Remael is Professor Emeritus of Translation Theory and Audiovisual Translation in the Department of Applied Linguistics/Translation and Interpreting at the University of Antwerp. She is founder of OPEN, the departmental Expertise Centre for Accessible Media and Culture, and a member of the departmental research group TricS. Her main research interests and publications are in audiovisual translation, media accessibility and translation as a multimodal practice. She is the former chief editor of Linguistica Antverpiensia NS – Themes in Translation Studies and has been a partner in numerous European accessibility projects and a board member of ESIST, ENPSIT and EST. In 2018 she received the ESIST Jan Ivarsson Award for invaluable services to the field of audiovisual translation.