Reception of Film-Medium Discourse in the Context of Film Translation (Using the Example of David Lynch's film "Mulholland Drive")

This study examines the potential benefits of studying film materials through the lens of psycholinguistics, focusing on multimodality. The main hypothesis is that the medium of film as a translator's workspace facilitates the creation of audiovisual metaphors in the translation process. The thesis advocates an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the translation work product; it uses an integrated methodology to model tactical thought processes. They are evaluated through theoretical analysis and comparison of the original and the translated text, taking into account extralinguistic factors. First, the specifics of cognitive processes at the moment of film translation are discussed. These include narrative transformations, audiovisual relations. Secondly, problematic details of professional activities are considered. The film Mulholland Drive will be analyzed in order to identify translation strategies and difficulties related to the specificity of the film's mode of expression. In order to empirically test the hypothesis, the study uses the script and the subtitle sheet as the main materials of the film. The latter are relevant for observing the nature of contextual features and their representation in the conditions of multimodal space.