Spoken and written codes in the recipient’s space (based on automatic subtitles)

The issue of the relationship between spoken and written speech is examined within the fields of linguistic variationology and linguosemiotics. The aim of the study is to identify the types of correspondence between spoken speech and automatic subtitles. The empirical basis of the research consists of 85 YouTube Shorts videos as a synthesis of auditory and graphic codes, as well as the results of a survey of recipients regarding the quality of automatic Russian-language subtitles, their conformity with Russian spoken speech, and the impact of identified modifications on the perception of information and understanding of the meaning conveyed in the video. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that, for the first time, units of code transformation were identified in the correlation of automatic subtitles and spoken speech in the same language; from a theoretical perspective, spoken speech and subtitles are considered in terms of the primacy and secondary status of auditory and graphic codes, with subtitles viewed as secondary texts relative to the original spoken variant. The results showed that most transformations in subtitles do not distort meaning and correspond to the content of the video as a polycode text. The most frequent type of code transformation is differences in the graphic form of a word compared to the grammatical standard in the Russian language.