As is seen below, the process of diasemiotic translation is diagonal. In contrast, diasemiotic translation crosses over from writing to speech, or - as in theДў 220 Nordic Journal of English Studies asemiotic translation crosses over from writing to speech, or - as in the case of subtitling - from speech to writing. This means that processes as diverse as conference interpreting, post-synchronization (= dubbing), technical translation and literary translation are all examples of isosemiotic translation. channel of expression - as the original, and thus renders speech as speech and writing as writing. Isosemiotic translation uses the same semiotic channel - i.e. However, a watershed runs between what I will call isosemiotic translation on the one hand, and diasemiotic translation on the other. I will suggest labeling all types of interlingual transfer 'translation', as they all share one basic quality: verbal messages are recreated in another language. means 'the transfer of written text in one language into written text in another'. 2) The fact that to most people the term 'translation' - or the equivalents 'traduction', 'Гљbersetzung', 'oversГ¦ttelse', etc. This normally implies some measure of condensation of the original dialogue, something that is often not expected in translated texts. This is mainly due to two things: 1) The famous and infamous time-and-space constraints of subtitling, which mean that no more than some 70 (alphanumeric) characters can be fitted into one subtitle, and that - in order to give viewers enough reading time - subtitles should be exposed at a pace not exceeding 12 characters per second. 1 219 SUBTITLES AND INTERNATIONAL ANGLIFICATION Henrik Gottlieb, University of Copenhagen Is subtitling translation? Language professionals tend to disagree as to whether subtitling is indeed translation, and even the subtitling industry is often reluctant to grant this type of language transfer the status of 'real' translation.

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