Dyson, Thomas Sanocki, Tobias Frere-Jones, Kevin Larson, Nick Kolenda and Joe Clark, this first part lays the foundation for the analysis and tackles one of the parameters - the font.īefore I can start talking about subtitle appearance, I need to establish a proper framework. Inspired by the work of Keith Rayner, Tim J. That’s why I decided to write this article series: to share some of my findings and, perhaps, stimulate further investigation. Much research went into finding out how to best spot, segment, condense, translate and position timed text, but when it comes to the visual dimension, there isn’t much up-to-date information available online. However, one aspect of subtitling remains largely uncharted to this day, and it is subtitle appearance - that is, the way subtitles look. Since then, this academic field has seen a huge increase in popularity and acknowledgement as a separate branch of translation studies. To my knowledge, the history of subtitling research dates back to 1957, when Simon Laks released his pioneering work Le Sous-titrage de films: Sa technique, son esthétique.

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