Screen Translation: Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 9/2, 2003)

There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, between a foreign language/culture and the target language/culture, and finally between the spoken code and the written one. All three issues are raised and discussed by contributors to this special issue of The Translator.

The topics covered include the following: the use of multimodal transcription for the analysis of audiovisual data; the depic...