Syntactic complexity as a stylistic feature of subtitles

• Authors: Stauder Andy , Ustaszewski Michael
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

translation style; stylometry; subtitles; syntactic complexity; corpus approaches

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
• Journal: Studia Translatorica
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 177-188

Contributors

author

Stauder Andy

• University of Innsbruck/ Austria

author

Ustaszewski Michael

• University of Innsbruck/ Austria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.23817/strans.11-13