Abstract
This contribution shows how epistemic modality expressed by characters in English films is conveyed into Italian dubbed and subtitled dialogues. The aim of the research is twofold: (a) revealing whether Italian norms governing epistemic modality differ from English norms and, secondly, (b) revealing whether epistemic modal markers in the source dialogues undergo modifications in translation for dubbing and for subtitling, two constrained audiovisual translation modes. Utterances containing epistemic modal markers were collected from six films to form three corpora: one for English original films, one for their dubbed counterparts and one for their subtitled counterparts. The study revealed that differences exist both in the expression of epistemic modality in the two language systems and between dubbed and subtitled dialogues.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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