The concept of quality in dubbing among translation students

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Published: Oct 15, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.3
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dubbing, quality, evaluation, expertise, questionnaires

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José Tomás Conde Ruano
Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4089-5019

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This paper deals with the opinion and beliefs of two groups of translation students on the concept of quality for dubbing. Data have been gathered by means of electronic questionnaires. Translation students are aware of the importance for quality of both synchronization (especially, isochrony) and the interaction of image and text. Video is essential to complete the translation task and to assess synchronies. Advanced students are more self-confident and show a wider knowledge of the professional activity. Translation students are an interesting profile to analyze the concept of quality in audiovisual translation, but further initiatives should consider other subjects as well.

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Conde Ruano, J. T. (2019). The concept of quality in dubbing among translation students. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, 87–112. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.3
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2019: Special Issue 4. Multilingualism and representation of identities in audiovisual texts
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Author Biography

José Tomás Conde Ruano, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)

José Tomás Conde Ruano teaches Translation and Interpreting at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and works within the framework of several research groups, such as TRALIMA, PETRA and GENTT. Together with that, he is a member of IDENTITRA project (FFI2012–39012-C04–01T), funded by the MINECO Ministry, focused on the representation of identities of multilingual audiovisual texts. PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada, his thesis deals with translation quality and evaluation and was the runner-up in the 2009-2011 Prize for the Doctoral Thesis, granted by the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies (AIETI). Some of his last works have appeared on Parallèles, Cadernos de Traduçao, Trans, Hermeneus, Ibérica, Across Languages and Cultures, Meta and JosTrans, inter alia. Today, he is interested in shedding some light on the processes involved in the assessment of audiovisual translations.

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