%0 Journal Article %1 Banos2013a %A Baños, Roc\'ıo %D 2013 %I Routledge %J Perspectives, Studies in Translatology %K audiovisual corpus television %N 4 %P 526--542 %R 10.1080/0907676X.2013.831924 %T ‘That is so cool’: investigating the translation of adverbial intensifiers in English-Spanish dubbing through a parallel corpus of sitcoms %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0907676X.2013.831924\#abstract %V 21 %X Although fictional dialogue differs notably from spontaneous conversation, scriptwriters use linguistic features that are typical of naturally-occurring conversation to achieve realistic dialogues. In the case of sitcoms, the type of discourse being mirrored is colloquial conversation, which is characterised by the use of emphatic language. Intensifiers are one of the many linguistic features associated with emotionally-loaded language in colloquial conversation in English and in Spanish. Research has also shown that adverbial intensifiers (such as ‘very’, ‘so’, ‘really’, ‘totally’, ‘pretty’, etc.) are also common in fictional dialogue, specifically in the TV series Friends. Taking into consideration the prevalence of adverbial intensifiers in Friends and the role they play in fictional dialogue, this paper sets out to explore how they have been dubbed into Spanish. The aim is to delve into the characteristics of Spanish dubbed dialogue and to find out if the translator resorts to features that are typica...

@article{Banos2013a, abstract = {Although fictional dialogue differs notably from spontaneous conversation, scriptwriters use linguistic features that are typical of naturally-occurring conversation to achieve realistic dialogues. In the case of sitcoms, the type of discourse being mirrored is colloquial conversation, which is characterised by the use of emphatic language. Intensifiers are one of the many linguistic features associated with emotionally-loaded language in colloquial conversation in English and in Spanish. Research has also shown that adverbial intensifiers (such as ‘very’, ‘so’, ‘really’, ‘totally’, ‘pretty’, etc.) are also common in fictional dialogue, specifically in the TV series Friends. Taking into consideration the prevalence of adverbial intensifiers in Friends and the role they play in fictional dialogue, this paper sets out to explore how they have been dubbed into Spanish. The aim is to delve into the characteristics of Spanish dubbed dialogue and to find out if the translator resorts to features that are typica...}, added-at = {2015-12-09T17:36:08.000+0100}, author = {Ba{\~{n}}os, Roc{\'{\i}}o}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/225d0c246c4414b9193b5661bdd7e89ea/cuevas.d}, doi = {10.1080/0907676X.2013.831924}, interhash = {dea656c5addcc67f3436da156ef8ffa9}, intrahash = {25d0c246c4414b9193b5661bdd7e89ea}, issn = {0907-676X}, journal = {Perspectives, Studies in Translatology}, keywords = {audiovisual corpus television}, language = {en}, mendeley-tags = {corpus,dubbing,translation}, month = dec, number = 4, pages = {526--542}, publisher = {Routledge}, timestamp = {2016-01-05T21:52:13.000+0100}, title = {{‘That is so cool’: investigating the translation of adverbial intensifiers in English-Spanish dubbing through a parallel corpus of sitcoms}}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0907676X.2013.831924{\#}abstract}, volume = 21, year = 2013 }