23-26 March 2015, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
This workshop offers an overview of the different types of translation that take place in the audiovisual world, including accessibility to the media (i.e. subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing and audio description for the blind and the partially sighted), and centres on subtitling. A definition of this professional practice is offered as well as a survey of the different types of subtitles in existence. The semiotics of subtitling will be discussed and participants will learn about some of the issues that constraint this particular form of translation.
The course (16 academic hours, 4 hours a day, mornings 09.30-13.00, one 20-min break) is targeted at students and teachers of translation as well professional translators wishing to explore a new skill.
- General Introduction to Audiovisual Translation
- Spatial and temporal constraints in subtitling
- Technological dimension of subtitling
- Subtitling for the Deaf and the Hard-of-Hearing (SDH)
- The subtitling market and future developments
The application deadline is 16th February 2015.
Find more details at http://www.nbu.bg/index.php?l=955 and in the pdf here.