A quantitative analysis of the reactions of viewers with hearing impairment to the intralingual subtitling of Egyptian movies

Al-Abbas, Linda S.; Haider, Ahmad S.; Saideen, Bassam

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08728

Cited by 15 publications

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“…There are scarce studies on how the audience reacts to the subtitling and dubbing of English movies into Arabic and vice versa. Al-Abbas, Haider, and Saideen (2022) examined the reactions of deaf viewers to the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) subtitles added to Egyptian vernacular films during the COVID-19 stay-at-home phase. They utilised a questionnaire to elicit the viewers' reactions to the subtitle of the Boushkash movie in English.…”

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Subtitling Cross-Cultures: Unveiling Audience Reactions to the Subtitling of the Iraqi Action Movie "Mosul" into English

Alrais,

Almahasee

2024

WJEL

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This study scrutinizes how the viewers reacted to the Iraqi Action Movie "Mosul," subtitled into English. The study designed a questionnaire of 22 items and disseminated it to undergraduate and postgraduate students who are specialists in English Language and Translation studies at three Iraqi Universities. They were asked to watch the subtitled version of the Iraqi dialect movie Mosul. They responded to a 21-item questionnaire of five constructs, mainly movie-watching habits, Iraqi vernacular, technical aspects, Comprehensibility, attitudes, and future recommendations. The analysis revealed that the participants responded positively to the interlingual subtitling of Iraqi vernacular action movies into English. The study analysis showed statistically significant evidence that people prefer to watch Iraqi movies subtitled interlingually into English than those subtitled interlingually in Modern Standard Arabic.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subtitling Cross-Cultures: Unveiling Audience Reactions to the Subtitling of the Iraqi Action Movie "Mosul" into English

Alrais,

Almahasee

2024

WJEL

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“…This attempt focused on investigating the effect of YouTube video content subtitles in translation (Díaz-Cintas, 2004) and promoting foreign language learning (Szarkowska et al, 2016). In this context, two types of subtitling are recognized: interlingual subtitling, which is in a language other than the spoken one, and intralingual subtitling, which is done in the language being spoken (Al-Abbas Al-Abbas et al, 2022). According to Grassilli (2014), there are two ways to do subtitling, instantaneous real-time subtitling, which is synchronized with speech, and the pre-recorded offline type.…”

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The Effects of Intralingual Subtitles on Jordanian University Students’ Foreign Language Learning

Haider¹,

Al-Salman²

2022

INT J INSTRUCTION

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Intralingual subtitling has become a functional accessibility didactic tool for EFL learning. Nevertheless, audio-visual translation (AVT)--as a manifestation of educational technology--has not been duly utilized as an EFL teaching approach in shaping the didactic and pedagogical platform and their immediate effects on foreign language learners. Hence, this study explores aspects of the EFL teaching/learning paradigm boosted by intralingual subtitling. The study sampled a population of 100 English and Translation Program students at a Jordanian university, representing an experimental group and a control group, of 50 students each. The experimental group received a four-month academic training in intralingual subtitling, while the control group had no exposure to the same experience. A TOEFL-based standardized test targeting listening comprehension, vocabulary building & recognition, and writing & spelling was administered to the two groups after the end of the term. A questionnaire was distributed to elicit the students' responses in the control group on the effectiveness of the intralingual subtitling technique in improving their proficiency in English. To compare the students' performance in the control group with their counterparts in the experimental group, the researchers calculated the scores in the three tested language skills for each group and ran a One-Way ANOVA test. The results showed that students with the intralingual subtitling experience demonstrated better performance in all three tested language skills. In the quantitative analysis of the questionnaire, the researchers calculated the percentage for each item's responses, provided the mean and standard error of it, and conducted a One-Sample T-Test for each subscale. The results showed statistically significant evidence that captioned videos helped students improve their listening comprehension, build and recognize new words, and improve their spelling. The current study recommends that intralingual subtitled YouTube videos be used more in EFL classrooms to improve students' language skills.

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“…Therefore, the team responsible for this endeavor included a Western or Western-educated creative crew who wrote, directed and produced the series. It is noteworthy that Netflix offers the same audiovisual product in different languages (Al-Abbas and Haider 2021;Al-Abbas, Haider and Saideen 2022), given that it's a significant stakeholder in the translation, not only for apparent distribution goals but script reviews and approvals.…”

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Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

Haider

Saideen

Hussein

2023

Middle East J. Cult. Commun.

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Subtitling involves constraints about differences between cultures. This requires a set of translation strategies, especially when subtitling from relatively conservative to more liberal cultures. This study explores subtitlers’ strategies when translating the Jordanian Arabic vernacular series Jinn into English. Jinn has been selected because it’s Netflix’s first Arabic-Jordanian series containing explicit scenes and inappropriate language. Further culture-bound expressions were classified according to their connotative functions. The findings demonstrated that subtitlers used various strategies to render culture-bound expressions from Arabic into English. These include translating the source culture taboo to a target culture taboo of the same, higher or lower intensity levels. The findings also revealed that ‘unfriendly suggestions’ and ‘noun supports’ were the most frequently targeted connotative functions of the swear words. The research recommends additional studies on subtitling movies and series cross-culture.

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A quantitative analysis of the reactions of viewers with hearing impairment to the intralingual subtitling of Egyptian movies

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Subtitling Cross-Cultures: Unveiling Audience Reactions to the Subtitling of the Iraqi Action Movie "Mosul" into English

Subtitling Cross-Cultures: Unveiling Audience Reactions to the Subtitling of the Iraqi Action Movie "Mosul" into English

The Effects of Intralingual Subtitles on Jordanian University Students’ Foreign Language Learning

Subtitling Taboo Expressions from a Conservative to a More Liberal Culture

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