The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen written by Irene Ranzato and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together contributions from the main experts in the field of multilingualism and language varieties (including dialects, accents, sociolects, and idiolects of specific speech communities) as expressed in fictional dialogue on-screen in films, and television series. The chapters included in the volume cover both the representation of these varieties and multilingual situations on screen as well as their translation into a range of languages. The handbook will thus be an essential resource for scholars and students in diverse fields including translation studies, audiovisual translation, linguistics, dialectology, film and television studies.