The emotional value of Polish and English subtitles

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ID22024838
AuthorsAgata Stanisławska (0009-0001-6142-2106, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Paweł Korpal (0000-0001-7479-936X, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue2
Pages285-304
Publication date2023-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranslation Spaces (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-3711 • E-ISSN: 2211-372X
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ts.23001.sta
OpenAlexW4385950095
LanguageEN
References cited27

Although research on the role of emotion in audiovisual translation and audio description has gained some ground in recent years, the emotional reception of subtitles as an AVT mode has been under researched. To address this empirical gap, this paper presents the results of a study on the emotional rating of English and Polish subtitles to a selection of animated films. Expressions from Polish and English subtitled versions of the same films were collected, and 100 participants (native speakers of Polish and English) were asked to rate them in terms of emotional valence and arousal evoked. While the main effect of utterance type (negatively valenced, neutral, positively valenced) was observed, there was no effect of language, suggesting that the subtitle excerpts elicited similar responses in both languages

Arousal · Cognition · Emotional valence · Linguistics · Subtitle · Utterance · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Artificial Intelligence

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