What is it about?

Review of Claire Ellender's book “Dealing with difference in audiovisual translation. Subtitling linguistic variation in films" (2015). The book looks at the significance of linguistic variation in films and the translation challenges it poses.

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Why is it important?

Film subtitling is a trending field in translation studies. Many films include linguistic variation but little has been written about it.

Perspectives

While Ellender's book provides valuable insights into translating linguistic variation, I believe that the framework of fictional orality, defined as “any attempt to recreate the language of communicative immediacy in fictional texts” (Brumme and Espunya 2012, 13), offers a more holistic approach.

Prof. Jenny Brumme
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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This page is a summary of: Ellender, Claire. 2015. Dealing with difference in audiovisual translation. Subtitling linguistic variation in films, Target International Journal of Translation Studies, August 2016, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/target.28.2.17bru.
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