Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to orthotypography.
Attention to orthotypographical rules is generrally underestimated in literary translations, despite its main importance.
2006, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, volume 40, number 2, page 5445 more examples
If the early scholar-printers speak with an authoritative voice to their own profession in matters orthotypographical, progress in spelling reform was largely, the a. thinks, a matter of collaboration between literary authors and intelligent and progressive printers.
1969, Erasmus; Speculum, volume 21, page 677We describe an activity in which the second year students of our Faculty of Translation and Interpreting in Granada designed their own bilingual corpus of newspaper texts of 12,000 words and analyzed it in order to identify orthotypographical conventions, cultural references and the strategies used in the translation of cultural references.
2003, Lebende Sprachen, volumes 48–49, Langenscheidt, page 153One seminal article from the 1980s is Marleau’s ‘Le sous-titres ... un mal nécessaire’, from 1982, in which the author classifies the different challenges posed by subtitling in four categories: technological, psychological, artistic-aesthetic and linguistic. He offers some orthotypographical recommendations on the presentation of the subtitles and transcends the linguistic dimension of the practice, considering economic factors, the influence of the film industry and the input of different professionals that take part in the subtitling process.
2009, Jorge Díaz Cintas, editor, New Trends in Audiovisual Translation, Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 2The first article deals with the many tests taken on board to check the functionality and validity of a set of technical, orthotypographical and linguistic criteria designed to elaborate quality subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing adults in Spain.
2010, Anna Matamala, Pilar Orero, editors, Listening to Subtitles: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 15In “Criteria for elaborating subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing adults in Spain: Description of a case study” (pp. 87-102), Ana Pereira uses a selection of technical and orthotypographical criteria for the subtitles in her experiment.
2010 September, Katrien Lievois, Pierre Schoentjes, editors, Translating Irony, page 244Synonyms: orthotypographic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or relating to orthotypography.
Origin
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