4.6.1　Interview Questions

The interview questions are mainly in response to the following:

1) According to your practical experience,please confirm your ideal length of a single-line subtitle in Chinese/English (films with translated Chinese subtitles only/films with original English subtitles only).

2) According to your experience,please give your opinion about the use of traditional expressions in E-C subtitle translations.(https://www.daowen.com)

3) According to your experience,please give your opinion about the use of popular expressions in E-C subtitle translations.

Besides these three statements,I posed other questions to different interviewees according to their varied study interests or working fields.To the scholars in the field of corpus linguistics and translation studies,I also asked for their advice in constructing her specific parallel corpus: a) approaches in choosing the correct data and b) suitable software to analyse the hypotheses in this particular research.To the scholars in the AVT study area,I asked for their study experience in reference to the following question: “In your previous research,did you know the main age group of the audience for English language animation films in the Chinese market?” I interviewed three practical film-makers in order to obtain more data about the ideal length of single-line subtitles in English and Chinese,as well as three professional subtitlers to discuss their experiences of translating the original English text into Chinese translated subtitles.Moreover,I referenced another practitioner’s interview with some of the subtitlers in order to further support my research hypotheses.