The objective of this paper is to address issues of comparability between English and Italian film dialogues. A comparison is drawn between dispersed words and n-grams extracted from the original English component, from the dubbed Italian component and from the original Italian component of the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue (Freddi and Pavesi 2009a; Pavesi et al. 2014; Zago 2018) via the WordSmith Tools software (Scott 2011). Besides identifying cross-linguistic dimensions of comparability between non-translated films, the paper examines the linguistic profile of dubbed Italian films against the background of both the language of original English films – the source texts – and the language of original Italian films. The findings suggest that film dialogue is a cross-linguistically stable register driven by the need to represent orality as well as by diegetic concerns.
Titolo: | English films vs Italian films: A comparative analysis via the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue and the WordSmith Tools | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 | |
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Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/371757 | |
ISBN: | 9789027203465 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |