영상 시각 기호와 의미 전달 -영화 자막 번역 중심으로-

Abstract

Nowadays we have usually experienced sharing our messages by the transmission devices through screen. The visual codes on the screen are considered as more important factors than past. Particularly they in subtitling of film translation deliver part of plots of film in place of actors' utterances. This study is intended to focus on the role played in the subtitling of target text. Most of all, It insists that one of visual codes occupies part of messages. The researches for visual codes role in subtitling have already studied by several scholars. Chaume(2004) classified visual codes as moving, linguistic, photographic, paralinguistic, and iconograhic code in the screen components. Thus, Küssmaul(2005) argued that visual codes substituted parts of utterances and assisted them. Previously Barthes(1964) and Saussure(1962) observed that signifiant and signifie as the first language formed denotation, and depending on utterance context or subjective judgement, they could form connotation. These facts make rooms for the transfer relations between visual codes and messages. In other words, as Küssmaul(2005) studied, visual codes in source text were assigned on target text properly in congruency with utterance situation. With basis on these researches, this study investigated three American-English films with Korean subtitles, Pride & Prejudice(2005), Lake House(2006), Something's Gotta give(2003). Most of the subtitle translations by visual codes corresponded to target text directly. Some visual codes as written form in the film playing showed to audiences literally and transferred messages directly. Others have influenced on captioning in the target text and substituted with a word or a expression. These results implied that visual codes played a role to deliver the messages and solve the ambiguity of them explicitly. We can acknowledge that visual codes in subtitling of screen translations not only play an assistant role but also replace some message.