4.5.3 Description of Respondents
Since the aim of the research is to evaluate the application of subtitling strategies and the effectiveness in using several types of preferred Chinese language peculiarities in E-C subtitle translation,the respondents are drawn from those who are most interested in English-language cartoon films,understand the original text and have a certain level of personal translation ability.As such,I have chosen to distribute my questionnaire to 100 undergraduates who are majoring in English.Focusing on this audience constituency ensures that the results of the questionnaire are going to be representative as a result of the respondents’ high level proficiency in English as well as the knowledge of Chinese language and culture from a young person’s perspective.
This group of 100 students are currently final year English major students at Shanghai University of Sport and Fudan University.Their average age is 22.Of the respondents,60% are female while the rest are male.All the respondents are native Chinese speakers.
Before answering the questionnaire,the monitors will arrange for all the participants to prepare themselves as follows:(https://www.daowen.com)
1) To watch the sample film by listening to the original English dialogue,while reading the translated Chinese subtitles.
2) Next,participants will be given a printed copy of the translated subtitles and their corresponding original texts to read; they will then be asked to think about the accuracy of the subtitle translation of the sample film.
After this prework activity,it is expected that participants will get to know the subtitle translation of the sample film well and have some degree of understanding and opinion about the quality of the translation,such that they will be ready to offer their own comments on the subtitle translation of the sample film.Besides,participants will have learned about the typology and the two newly proposed strategies of localization and globalization during my previous teaching class,as well as via my email letter entitled The Related Knowledge of the Questionnaire.