Os problemas de segmentação nos sintagmas verbais e nominais na Legendagem para Surdos e Ensurdecidos - LSE

Abstract

This article deals with one of the branches of Accessible Audiovisual Translation, which promotes a sociocultural form of accessibility to people with hearing impairment: Subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing (SDH).Its main goal was to present the analysis of the linguistic segmentation problems found in the SDH of the Brazilian Soap Opera "Cheias de Charme", having as theoretical foundation the Translation Studies, more specifically, Audiovisual Translation (AVT).The linguistic segmentation problems are inappropriate divisions in one subtitle and they can occur between lines and, or between subtitles. They also can occur in levels of phrases and clauses.The subtitles were extracted from five chapters of „Cheias de Charme‟, broadcasted by the Brazilian TV channel Rede Globo de Televisão. This corpus is a subcorpus of the project entitled The segmentation in the Subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing (SDH): a corpus based study (CORSEL Project), developed by the Subtitling and Audiodescription group (LEAD) in the Ceara State University and coordinated by the Professor Dra. Vera Lúcia Santiago Araújo. The research in its totality resulted in important quantitative data, corroborating the results of other studies, such as those of Chaves (2012) and Assis (2013), identifying a greater frequency of LSE segmentation problems in types of verb phrase and noun phrase in high-speed subtitles. In this article, we present a qualitative reflection on theses finding, describing and analyzing the problems of segmentation, and presenting some possible ways to rebuilt them, in such a way that they could be fit into the technical and linguistic parameters of SDH.