Cultural references in films: an audience reception study of subtitling into Arabic

Alfaify, Abeer; Pinto, Sara Ramos

doi:10.1080/13556509.2021.1898714

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“…Previous studies (e.g., Abdelaal, 2019;Alfaify & Ramos Pinto, 2021;Altahri, 2013;Simanjuntak & Basari, 2016) on subtitling CRs have predominantly concentrated on the selected CRs rather than examining the complete distribution of CRs within a film. However, this study sought to identify and analyze all pertinent CRs throughout the film.…”

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“…Recent years have witnessed considerable attention of researchers to the translation of CRs in subtitles of films (e.g., Abdelaal, 2019;Blayt & Liubinien, 2016;Marco, 2019). Although these studies have produced significant findings that can be useful to translators and subtitlers, most of these studies have been carried out based on European languages, contexts, and cultures (Alfaify & Ramos Pinto, 2021). In 110 other words, studies on the subtitling of CRs into Chinese culture are relatively rare.…”

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A Corpus-based Evaluation of English-Mandarin Cultural References between Fansubbing and Official Subtitling

Zhang,

Mahfoodh,

Tan

2024

JICC

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There has been considerable interest in subtitling strategies in the translation of cultural references. However, there is a lack of studies on subtitling in the Chinese context. The purpose of this study is to compare the subtitling strategies used by fansubbers and official subtitlers when dealing with cultural references in translated Mandarin subtitles. The results showed that 228 cultural references had been found in the two films: The King’s Speech and No Country for Old Men. In addition, fansubbers and official subtitlers did not use three strategies in the selected framework: loan, calque, and compensation. Furthermore, three other strategies were identified in this study that did not fall within the selected framework, namely paraphrase, condensation, and gloss. In addition, the gloss strategy was only found in fansubbing, whereas official subtitlers used omission and lexical-recreation strategies. Some inappropriate or inaccurate subtitling of cultural references can be identified in the fansubbing. Although there was a divergence between the two subtitling groups, the statistical results showed that the differences between these groups in the adoption of subtitling strategies were not statistically significant.

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A Corpus-based Evaluation of English-Mandarin Cultural References between Fansubbing and Official Subtitling

Zhang,

Mahfoodh,

Tan

2024

JICC

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“…As for applied research on subtitling, numerous studies tackled subtitling strategies and constraints, including the following by Abdelaal and Al Sarhani (2021), Alfaify and Ramos Pinto (2022), Gach et al (2021), Gedik (2020, Liang (2020), Mehawesh andNeimneh (2021), andPostigo (2020) to mention but a few. Abdelaal and Al Sarhani (2021) investigated the strategies used in the subtitling of taboos and swearing words into Arabic in the "Training Day" movie; their study revealed that the most recurrent strategies were either euphemizing the expressions or omitting them (c/f Gedik, 2020 below).…”

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“…Abdelaal and Al Sarhani (2021) investigated the strategies used in the subtitling of taboos and swearing words into Arabic in the “ Training Day ” movie; their study revealed that the most recurrent strategies were either euphemizing the expressions or omitting them (c/f Gedik, 2020 below). Likewise, Alfaify and Ramos Pinto (2022) addressed the shortcomings surrounding subtitling culture reference reception on films subtitled into Arabic, focusing on the effect of foreignization and domestication within the Saudi context. Along the same lines, Gach et al (2021) explored the subtitling strategies of some Ukrainian culture-specific information showing that the renderings were poor and lacked the proper effect in the TL.…”

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Translating Culture in the Jordanian T.V. Comedy Series “al jar gabl al dar” (My American Neighbor) Into English

Obeidat

2023

Sage Open

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The present study aims at investigating the strategies of translating cultural expressions from Arabic into English. The study also attempts to identify the types of cultural expressions and the strategies employed by the translators when rendering them into English. The data is collected from the Jordanian TV comedy series الجار قبل الدار “al jar gabl al dar” (My American Neighbor) season 4, which was streamed on Roya T.V. channel in 2017; several challenging cases, within their context, were selected and being elaborated. The study relied on Gottlieb’s subtitling model of analysis to handle the strategies employed. The English subtitled translations of these cases were compared to the original texts and were analyzed to check accuracy, acceptability, and comprehensibility. The hypothesis is that the cultural expressions do perplex the translators who exert lots of effort to employ strategies that may convey them into the target language. However, the inevitable result is inaccurately rendering some of these statements, which may be attributed to a lack of understanding of both cultures on the part of the translators and inappropriate translation strategies selection. The study reveals that cultural expressions identified in this TV comedy include idioms (41%), dialect sayings (27%), religious expressions (15%), dialect (11%), and standard proverbs (6%), respectively. The study concludes that paraphrase (60.61%), imitation (22.73%), deletion (12.12%), expansion 3.03%), and transfer (1.51%) have been the most recurrent subtitling strategies employed when dealing with the Arabic cultural expressions.

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“…Pedersen's (2011) model for translating culturally specific references is deemed the most comprehensive and hence frequently used in subtitling research studies (see Refs. [ 6 , 12 , 16 ]). He identified seven baseline categories: retention, specification, direct translation, generalization, substitution, omission, and official equivalent, and defined them as follows:…”

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The analysis and quality assessment of translation strategies in subtitling culturally specific references: Feathers

Alaa,

Al Sawi

2023

Heliyon

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Cultural references in films: an audience reception study of subtitling into Arabic

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

A Corpus-based Evaluation of English-Mandarin Cultural References between Fansubbing and Official Subtitling

A Corpus-based Evaluation of English-Mandarin Cultural References between Fansubbing and Official Subtitling

Translating Culture in the Jordanian T.V. Comedy Series “al jar gabl al dar” (My American Neighbor) Into English

The analysis and quality assessment of translation strategies in subtitling culturally specific references: Feathers

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