Jan Pedersen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Pedersen plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0929-7316
Title
Subtitling Norms for Television: An exploration focussing on extralinguistic cultural references
Jan Pedersen
[Benjamins Translation Library, 98] 2011. xvii, 242 pp.
Subjects Translation Studies
Articles
2019 Fansubbing in subtitling land: An investigation into the nature of fansubs in Sweden Target 31:1, pp. 50–76 | Article
Fansubs (subtitles made by fans for fans) have become a global practice, and it is by now a fairly well-described phenomenon, particularly for fansubs of Japanese anime. However, for Sweden, which has a long and strong tradition of prosubs (commissioned professional subtitles), there have hardly… read more
2017 How metaphors are rendered in subtitles Target 29:3, pp. 416–439 | Article
Metaphors have been thoroughly studied as translation problems in recent decades. However, they are still under-researched in the subfield of audiovisual translation. This is strange since this mode of translation, particularly subtitling, has very special conditions which complicate the… read more
2008 High felicity: A speech act approach to quality assessment in subtitling Between Text and Image: Updating research in screen translation, Chiaro, Delia, Christine Heiss and Chiara Bucaria (eds.), pp. 101–115 | Article
This paper contains some thoughts on how an approach based on speech act theory can be used for quality assessment in subtitling. It is assumed here that subtitling is a pragmatic form of translation and that it might be more felicitous to give a speaker’s primary illocutionary point (what is meant… read more