Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in The Force Awakens

A frame from Star Wars: The Force Awakens featuring BB-8 and the caption: Chirps Inquisitively)

The release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens on DVD and Blu-Ray last week gives us a welcome opportunity to take a much closer look at the closed captions.

The BB-8 droid provides an instructive case study. How do the closed captions convey the changing meanings and emotions of the droid’s electronic beeping sounds?

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