Desarrollo de una herramienta de análisis de los parámetros técnicos de los subtítulos y estudio diacrónico de series estadounidenses de televisión en DVD

The first part of this research presents a review of the different criteria applied by scholars, institutions, professional translators and subtitling software applications in the assessment of technical parameters of subtitles in audiovisual texts. This review reveals a clear lack of homogeneity with regard to the threshold values for the different parameters, which leads to the proposal of a new set of assessment criteria in which the differences that were found in the stage of analysis are minimized. Afterwards, these criteria are integrated in a software application that has been designed for the analysis of subtitles and makes it possible to handle a large corpus of audiovisual texts.


The second part of this work presents a study of the technical parameters in a corpus with more than one and a half million subtitles in Spanish and Ingles from different American television series which were broadcast between the years 2000 and 2010 and published in DVD format in Spain. In this analysis, I have used the software tool that was developed in the first part of this work, and said analysis establishes the degree of compliance of the subtitles with regard to the values that were set regarding the technical parameters of maximum reading speed of subtitles and minimum duration of the pause between two consecutive subtitles. The results of the analysis prove the existence of a trend within professional practice which drifts away from the established canons that were analyzed in detail in the first part of this work.