Social systems and translation

Tyulenev, Sergey

doi:10.1075/hts.4.soc4

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The reception of subtitled films from a sociological perspective

Aranda

Luque

2018

Babel

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Spain has traditionally been a dubbing country. Nevertheless, subtitled versions are becoming more visible nowadays. One of the reasons that explain the increasing presence of subtitled films may be the growing concentration of English-speaking people in some areas. But it is not the only factor that explains this often unnoticed transformation: the ease of access to subtitled versions of TV series on the Internet, and the habit of watching subtitled films in other contexts such as film festivals or cinema forums, might help to understand why audiences seem attracted to the subtitled versions of films. In any case, while there may be many surmises, there is little data to confirm them. This article analyses the results of an empirical study thought to provide some information about the reception of subtitled films within the context of a cinema forum held on a weekly basis in a specific Spanish area. The overall purpose of the work is to shed some light on both the audience’s profile and its opinion about subtitling as an alternative way of watching foreign films in a dubbing country. The study is carried out through a survey that allows us to interpret the resulting conclusions from a sociological perspective.

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The reception of subtitled films from a sociological perspective

Aranda

Luque

2018

Babel

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The culture(s) of translation in Russia

Baer

Tyulenev

2019

Benjamins Translation Library

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This chapter traces the development of the Russian concept of translation and its relationship to practice across four historical periods, each with its own distinct culture of translation, which shaped the texts selected for translation, who translated them, and how they were translated. These cultures are perhaps more sharply defined than in other European cultures due to the fact that they were brought about by dramatic and radical change from the top, such as the reforms of Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century and the Bolshevik Revolution in the early twentieth. The cultures covered extend from Kievan Rus to the reforms of Peter the Great, the long eighteenth century, the long nineteenth century, ending with the Bolshevik Revolution, and the communist and post-communist periods.

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Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows

Botha

2023

Benjamins Translation Library

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Africa’s multiplicity of languages has seen little manifestation in large-scale translation flows of the indigenous African languages in the post-independence period, largely because of the hegemony of ex-colonial languages. Against this background, Nollywood’s stimulation of translation from and into indigenous African languages in a way that crosses national borders and exhibits some “velocity” is exceptional. This chapter investigates Nollywood’s relationship with indigenous language translation and accounts for the conditions that promote indigenous language use in inter-societal information flows. The investigation employs the concepts of selective mediation and permeability as described in Sergey Tyulenev’s application of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory to explore how Nollywood-stimulated indigenous language translations can pierce through language barriers, while operating selectively under the influence of social and ideological conditioning.

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Social systems and translation

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

The reception of subtitled films from a sociological perspective

The reception of subtitled films from a sociological perspective

The culture(s) of translation in Russia

Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows

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