Subtitle Translation from the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse: Take the Movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as an Example

Peiyang Lin; Dijiang Luo

doi:10.54097/ijeh.v6i1.3087

Authors

Peiyang Lin
Dijiang Luo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v6i1.3087

Keywords:

Audio-Visual Translation, Multimodality, Subtitle Translation.

Abstract

Film and television works are multimodal discourse composed of a variety of symbol systems such as text, sound and image, so the audience's various senses can be mobilized at the same time when watching movies. Starting from the perspective of multimodal discourse analysis, this paper applies Delu Zhang’s theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis to analyze the subtitle translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from four aspects: culture, context, content and expression, so as to understand the influence of multimodal on subtitle translation.

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