OECD Forum 2018: Proposta di sottotitolaggio dell'Economic Outlook Debate "Employment, Digitalisation & Productivity"

The aim of this paper is to present an adaptation in subtitle format from English into Italian of the Youtube video “Employment Digitalisation and Productivity”, a debate held during the OECD Forum 2018 in Paris which followed the presentation of the 2018 OECD Global Economic Outlook. The experts involved discuss the main topics explored in the outlook: the challenges of the global economy, the structural reforms expected from the policymakers to boost growth and productivity, the impact of digitalization on enterprises and on the employment market. The idea underlying the adaptation is to combine the subtitle format with the sublanguage of the domain of macroeconomy. The dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the major audiovisual translation practices, focusing on subtitling. In the second chapter the focus shifts the lexical, syntactical and textual features of specialized languages and of the language of economics in particular. In this chapter are also presented the translation method and terminological resource building procedure. The third chapter provides the analysis of the difficulties encountered during the process of adaptation in subtitle format (that being the time and space restrains, the translation of the oral dimension, the LSP conventions and the domain-specific terminology) and illustrates the strategies used to solve them. The paper is followed by the table of the complete transcription of the original dialogues, the adaptation and the corresponding time codes of the subtitle format.