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

Alaa, Ahmed M.; Al Sawi, Islam

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19095

Heliyon

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19095

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

Ahmed M. Alaa,

Islam Al Sawi

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Post-editing challenges in Chinese-to-English neural machine translation of movie subtitles

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Subtitling strategies of swear words in the stand-up comedy Mo Amer: Muhammad in Texas

Sawi

2024

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Stand-up comedies often employ swear words as a technique to create audience rapport and playful discourse. However, translators face significant challenges in subtitling swear words in these performances for conservative cultures, such as Arabic. This research uses a qualitative and quantitative approach to analyze the Netflix special Mo Amer: Muhammad in Texas to identify swear words, their Arabic subtitles, and the subtitling strategies used and their frequency, utilizing Ljung’s (2011) swear words’ classification and Khoshsaligheh and Ameri’s (2014) subtitling framework. The results revealed that among the 174 identified swear words, “fuck” and “shit” were the most frequently used, at 52% and 16% respectively. Translators employed euphemism, deletion, and taboo to non-taboo strategies, with euphemism emerging as the most predominant at 44%. The strategy of subtitling via taboo to taboo was not used when rendering swear words into Arabic, probably due to cultural considerations for the audience. The findings enhance cross-cultural subtitling practices for stand-up comedy and promote inclusive and engaging experiences for diverse audiences. Further implications are discussed.

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

Cited by 5 publications

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Post-editing challenges in Chinese-to-English neural machine translation of movie subtitles

Post-editing challenges in Chinese-to-English neural machine translation of movie subtitles

Subtitling strategies of swear words in the stand-up comedy Mo Amer: Muhammad in Texas

The Arabic psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale: Development, translation, and evaluation

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