Maria Pavesi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Pavesi is involved.
Articles
2025 Grammatical complexity in film dialogue: A corpus-based study from a register-functional perspective International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 51–78 | Article
Grammatical complexity has traditionally been associated with the structural elaboration of texts, and, more recently, with the functionally-motivated use of syntactic patterns exhibiting internal variability along the written-to-spoken register continuum (Biber et al., 2022). Adopting a… read more
2008 Spoken language in film dubbing: Target language norms, interference and translational routines Between Text and Image: Updating research in screen translation, Chiaro, Delia, Christine Heiss and Chiara Bucaria (eds.), pp. 79–99 | Article
One main feature which distinguishes film translation from other translation types is the need to produce a text which quite closely mimics spoken language. To which degree this is achieved and, more feasibly, which features are involved in doing so deserve in-depth investigation. Taking a small… read more
2008 Tailor-made interlingual subtitling as a means to enhance second language acquisition The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation, Díaz-Cintas, Jorge (ed.), pp. 215–225 | Article