Acquisition Of Multi-modal Information From The Source Text In Translation

Multimodal discourse refers to the phenomenon of using various senses to communicate,such as vision,audition and touch.It is involved with many means and symbolic resources such as text,sound,movement and image.Documentary is a typical multimodal discourse.It contains many symbol resources such as text,image,sound,etc.It presents the story to the audience through the forms of pictures,scenes,human facial expressions,actions,dialogue,narration,background music and so on.This report is based on the subtitle translation of American Discovery Channel series,consisting of 18 episodes of English-Chinese subtitle translation.Starting from the two major modes of multimodality,the visual mode and the auditory mode,this report discusses the multimodal information acquisition of documentary subtitle translation in case analysis to the maximum extent.In the process of translation practice,the author concludes the specific ways to acquire multimodal information from the source text from the visual mode and the auditory mode.The expression ways of visual modal information are divided into static vision and dynamic vision.Static vision information includes graphics on screen and language text,dynamic vision information includes body movements and event scenes,while auditory modal information is shown in character voice,background sound of the video and subtitle sync.This report is a summary of the practice of documentary subtitle translation,hoping to provide more thinking for subtitle translators.Its significance is to help the translator use the multi-modal information to better translate the source text,optimize the communication effect and promote the cultural exchanges between different countries.