The Prosody of Dubbed Speech / Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting (PDF)

"An excellent example of solid scholarship, The Prosody of Dubbed Speech: Beyond the Character's Words constitutes a ground-breaking contribution to dubbing, where Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán makes an important and thought-provoking contribution to the language of dubbing by examining non-verbal features that characterise dubbed speech. Based on an updated, select bibliography, this insightful volume reveals aspects on the language of dubbing not yet revealed in typical research. It will soon become a must-read for practitioners, researchers and lecturers in Audiovisual Translation." -- Frederic Chaume, Universitat Jaume I, Spain and University College London, UK

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level. The author's unique perspective - as both a translation studies researcher and a voice-over professional - helps to bring these two aspects of the dubbing process together into a coherent study for the first time. Supported by corpus analysis of English and Spanish episodes of US TV show How I Met Your Mother, she examines aspects of prosody in source and target languages, including features such as intonation, loudness, tempo, rhythm and tension. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, media studies, television and film production, as well as dubbing professionals.