Syntactic complexity as a stylistic feature of subtitles

Autor:	Andy Stauder, Michael Ustaszewski
Jazyk:	German<br />English<br />Polish
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	translation style stylometry subtitles syntactic complexity corpus approaches Translating and interpreting P306-310
Zdroj:	Studia Translatorica, Iss 11, Pp 177-188 (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2084-3321 2657-4802
DOI:	10.23817/strans.11-13
Popis:	In audiovisual translation, stylometry can be used to measure formal-aesthetic fidelity. We present a corpus-based measure of syntactic complexity as a feature of language style. The methodology considers hierarchical dimensions of syntactic complexity, using syllable counting and dependency parsing. The test material are dialogues of several characters from the TV show “Two and a Half Men”. The results show that characters do not differ syntactically among themselves as much as might be expected, and that, despite a general tendency to level differences even more in translation, the changes in syntactic complexity between the original and translation depend mostly on the respective character-feature combination.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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