2。 Literature Review

     An increasing number of professors and scholars pay attention to the linguistic features and requirements of English film and TV translation from home and abroad。

     A lot of experts have done numerous research on the linguistic features and requirements of English film and TV translation。 First, in the book Translation Goes to the Movie(published in March 1st 2011), the author called Michael Cronin puts forward unique insights and makes contributions to communication studies, translation studies and cultural studies by taking some types of films as examples such as silent films。 Second, in the book Translation and Globalization(published in July 2003), the author looks at the changing geography of translation practice and offers new ways of understanding the role of the translator in globalized societies and economies。 Drawing on examples and case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, the author argues that translation is central to debates about language and cultural identity, and shows why consideration of the role of the translation and translators is a necessary part of safeguarding and promoting linguistic and cultural persity。 Third, in the book Basic Film Translation and Research(came out in January 2013) , it analyzes the present situation of film translation theory and practice in China and major European and American countries, and expounds the particularity and basic principles of film and television translation。 The book discussed three most important types of film translation subtitle translation from the perspective of translation practice, subtitle translation, voice dubbing and film title translation, through a large number of examples and analysis to reveal the rules of film translation and clarify the doubts and problems in the practice of translation。

3。 The Linguistic Features论文网

     Film and television subtitle translation is a special kind of language type。 It changes the spoken language into a written form。 Its main purpose is to cross language differences, transmit information in the film and television semantics and help the audience across language barriers to fully understand the story。 Therefore, English film and television subtitle translation has the characteristics of popularity, instantaneity, time and space limitation。

3。1 Popularity of languages 

     Compared to other forms of art, film and television drama is more close to life。 The main consumer groups are also ordinary people。 Therefore, in the translation, we should pay more attention to the popularity of film and television subtitles。 What’s more, the subtitling should be popular, which make full use of the role of the media of cultural communication, the translation should be linked with the most closely related words in our daily life as much as possible。 Some people have good comprehension while some people own week comprehension, so the translators should try their best to make the subtitle translation suit both refined and popular tastes。 The so-called popular translation, simply speaking, is to ensure the audience can understand the film。 So what kind of translation can make audience understand ? This requires us that we should pay attention to make the words and sentences simple and clear, rather than those what are too sophisticated or mildly。 The translation can not be too vulgar because film itself is a way of culture transmission。

3。1。1 Colloquial expressions

     Art comes from life, English film and television drama not only pursue the truth of art, but also the authenticity of life。 As the film and television drama is the art form most close to daily life, drama dialogue mostly originates from life。 The language is colloquial。 There are not extensive vocabulary。 The sentences are simple and easy to understand。 There will be a lot of popular words and expression ways so the translation is very close to the living。 In Big Bang Theory, there are some examples。 The following translation may account for it。