Overview: Introducing the field. The techniques and strategies of subtitling: the dynamics of condensation in translation, non-verbal influences and visual context. - Looking at Signalling values, Words and Performance, we watched an extract from Beverly Hills Cop 3, discussed translation problems, briefly talked about the history of subtitling, looked at different subtitling jobs.

Main strategies in subtitling: How to prioritise between competing channels of information in a film. What are audience expectations to subtitles when the rhytmic and connotative elements dominate the dialogue? Examples from Meet the Parents. Looking at similarities between interpreting and subtitling. Looking at signalling value of text: Factual, psychological, emotional and cultural hierarchies

Text and Context: connotation and denotation - choosing the voice of the speakers. Signalling effects v factual accuracy. The value of "facts": Sherlock Holmes v The Terminator, difference in speaker perception.. Register: slang, swearing. A closer look at Jungle Fever, extract "Gator asking for money". 

Audiovisual Translation Theories: Types of information transfers and subtitle condensation: Metaphoric and Metonymic translation.  Looking at metonymoc and metaphoric translation strategies. Priorites in condensation, metonymic, metaphoric condensation and rhetorical elements. [Looking at the opening of Forrest Gump.] How to select story.