RECREATION OF NARRATOR’S VERBAL PORTRAIT IN DOCUMENTARY AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article dwells on the issue of narrator’s verbal portrait recreation in audiovisual translation of documentaries. The main aim of the research is to study speech characteristics of a real language identity and create a scheme, which implies documentary narrator’s verbal portrait analysis. The dominant components of narrator’s verbal portrait are revealed. The researcher analyzes specific characteristics of documentary audiovisual text, which are integrated into the scheme of narrator’s verbal portrait. Documentary audiovisual texts are considered to be a contamination of popular science style and oral speech register. The scheme is aimed at analyzing a verbal portrait and combines fundamental data, prosodic and language characteristics of a narrator. Thus, such parameters as age, gender, education, pronunciation and language peculiarities are scrutinized. The developed scheme of narrator’s speech characteristics analysis may be implemented in audiovisual translation of documentaries to optimize the process of decoding source text to target language and recreation of narrator’s verbal portrait.