Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Translation of Implicit Compliments in Subtitles
in JoSTrans Issue 06
http://www.jostrans.org/
Edited by Díaz Cintas, Jorge & Pilar Orero & Aline Remael
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the strategic function of implicit compliments, aiming to evaluate their contribution to positive and negative politeness and their translation in interlingual subtitles (from English into Italian).
KEYWORDS
Interlingual subtitles, pragmatics, compliments, politeness, indirectness.
