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Posted by Paul Memmi on Aug 3, 2010 0 views
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For subtitling, semiolinguistic Concision Tools are used to spare the subtitle from what is already conveyed by the audio/visual movie environment. How to focus on the essential message, simplify, shorten it, and make it more dense, yet, give it a more persuasive, vivid and striking form is the challenge. This course will go deeper into the discovery of the proven Ph-D Paul Memmi's Linguistic Concision Toolbox © for concise writing.

Target audience: Translators and content writers working in subtitling, advertising, journalism, radio, localization and many other types of specialized writing and translation.

Topics to be covered during the presentation:

• Graphic Changes
• Construction Changes
• Style Changes
• Intensification
• Meaning Transfers
Duration: 70 mins

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Language: English