The Prosody of Dubbed Speech Beyond the Character's Words

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.

Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán is a Researcher in Audiovisual Translation and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is also a translator, subtitler and proofreader and has worked as a dubbing actress. She is a member of the Galician Observatory for Media Accessibility (GALMA).