The Use of Subtitling in Teaching Professional Interpretation

摘要

Two studies of the General Direction for Education and Culture of the European Commission, one of 2008 and the other of 2011, recommend the use of subtitling both to encourage learning foreign languages and as a tool for formal learning of foreign languages. In this article we intend to illustrate the possibility of using subtitling for teaching professional interpretation from French into Romanian and from Romanian into French on the basis of their similarities. In subtitling and in interpreting, the meaning is rendered by the logical decoding of the linguistic and extralinguistic messages. Subtitling and interpreting are similar as far as the following are concerned: linguistic and extralinguistic competences involved, the semiotic systems, the types of constraints involved in decoding the message, a more active participation of the public, compared to the translation recipient. The article provides examples of the use of subtitling for all types of interpretation: sight translation, liaison interpreting, consecutive and simultaneous translation. Subtitling can be used for training various people at different degrees: university, post graduate, translators, communicators, etc. and also, with slight alterations, for improving the French language knowledge.