3.5.11　Summary

To sum up,Gottlieb’s typology has made a significant contribution to the study of AVT,but one should be mindful that his work is within the context of English-Danish Translation Studies.Since Chinese is not a language in the Indo-European family,however,scholars in the field of E-C study may not completely follow Gottlieb’s strategies in their study and work given that English and Chinese are totally different language systems.Furthermore,his typology was developed within the perspective of linguistics,rather than AVT subtitling.

The following chart concludes the observation to these strategies in the sample film,Despicable Me 1 (all the data are classified and collected in Appendix III):

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According to the above analysis and conclusion,the applicable and frequently used strategies in the context of E-C subtitle translation are clearly paraphrase,transfer,transcription,and condensation; while dislocation is suitable to be used in translations involving songs,imitation is widely used in the translation of the names of the characters as well as the places.And since decimation,deletion and resignation are considered as extreme methods to decrease the original text,these are rare strategies in subtitle translations.More specifically,the use of condensation is always appearing in the subtitles,which involves the use of traditional Chinese expressions and Chinese idioms.Given the features of word formation,Chinese idioms are commonly four-character words.I approve the use of this type of traditional expressions in E-C subtitle translation from the perspectives of ideal length.In addition,considering the mechanical limits of making film subtitles,the strategy of condensation is recommended to be used frequently in subtitle translation.Using Chinese idioms to explain an original English sentence or sentence pattern is also regarded as a use of the strategy of paraphrase from the perspective of intercultural communication.Therefore,this strategy is also recommended to be used in subtitle translation.For the high frequency of use of the strategy of transfer,I think it must because the original text of animation films features simpler colloquial language than other types of films.Therefore,although the strategy of transfer is more often used in cognate languages — for example,English and most European languages all belong to the Indo-European family of languages — it is applicable to some degree because of the expected audiences’ relevant reading age and educational background as well as the content of the film itself.In turn,translators can deploy literal translation or find equivalence between the original English text and the Chinese subtitles.The last high frequency strategy used in E-C subtitle translation is transcription.With the development of globalization,I recommend the use of this strategy in some particular circumstances in E-C subtitle translation.For instance,for all the common original English names of the characters and famous places,it is recommended to use this strategy,because the audience of the English-language exported animation films in the Chinese market mainly comprises young people who are expected to have a certain level of English language as well as general knowledge about the world.However,for the names which have indicated meanings in the film,the subtitlers need to be more careful to use other strategies like transfer and imitation in order to show clearly the indicated meaning of these names to the audience.