Using a Multimedia Parallel Corpus to Investigate English-Galician Subtitling

This paper presents an ongoing research project that involves the compilation and exploitation of the multimedia corpus of subtitled films Veiga as a method to investigate the practice of English intralingual subtitling and English-Galician interlingual subtitling. Our project draws on recent work in corpus-based translation studies and its applications in the field of audiovisual translation and, more specifically, on the use and development of multimedia corpora to empirically investigate film discourse, translation and subtitling. The Veiga corpus has been developed under the broader framework of the CLUVI Parallel Corpus, although it transcends the only-text approach that characterizes the CLUVI various corpora, enabling users to access the corpus content, that is, the English and the Galician subtitles of twenty four English speaking audiovisual products, in their natural, multi-semiotic form. The paper discusses issues of corpus design, multimedia text processing (alignment and annotation) and data retrieval alongside questions about the potential uses of our multimedia parallel corpus in subtitling and translation practice, research and education.