The reception of swearing in film dubbing: a cross-cultural case study

Pavesi, Maria; Zamora, Pablo Conesa

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2021.1913199

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“…In this paper, we present studies that focus on the reception of swearing in subtitling, as well as studies comparing the reception in subtitling to that in dubbing. For more information on the reception of swearing in dubbing, see Pavesi and Zamora (2022).…”

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The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Moura

2024

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Reception studies in audiovisual translation seek to explore how translation choices affect the audience’s comprehension, emotional engagement, enjoyment, and overall viewing experience of audiovisual materials. This study focuses on the subtitling product and analyzes the acceptability of swear words translated through different stimuli: subtitles with softened, maintained, and intensified swearing, along with standard Netflix subtitles (control). Employing a multi-method approach, the study collected data through a survey, using questionnaires with a Likert scale and interviews, following the user-centered translation model to understand how participants receive and perceive swear words in subtitling. The results indicate that the control group had the highest acceptability of the participants, while the group with softened swear words presented the lowest acceptability rate. The analysis shows that participants across all groups reported that discomfort does not arise from reading the swear word in the subtitle but from perceiving a deliberate change in its offensive load—usually softened. The findings demonstrate that this change can lead to a breach of the contract of illusion in subtitling, as participants are exposed to the original dialogue and the translated subtitle simultaneously. In conclusion, when perceived, the change in the offensive load can redirect the viewer’s focus from the video to the subtitles, negatively affecting the enjoyment of the audiovisual experience.

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The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Moura

2024

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“…Violence, on the one hand, is indeed a negative situation that must be addressed, but on the one hand, differences in non-physical forms of violence in each language and culture are interesting research to be studied. As has been done by (Pavesi &;Zamora, 2021), The results of the analysis that in the crosscultures of Italy and Spain, non-physical violence in the form of swearing, even in the form of parts of films can still create emotions because it is set against a taboo and offensive background. The phenomenon of this study also links visual scenes of non-physical violence as something that has addictive properties to be enjoyed, with one of the dissemination media is film (Brothers, 2003) .…”

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Nonphysical Violence in Kung Fu Film: “黄飞鸿之英雄有梦”

Adhimas,

Fitriana,

Chaoqun

et al. 2023

metahumaniora

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Chinese Kungfu films, which are famous for their physical violence, can also be seen from their non-physical violence. It will not be possible for a fight to be fought without verbal contact between the previous conflicts. This will be an additional perspective that Kungfu films can not only be enjoyed in terms of physical violence but also non-physical violence. Analysis of the film “黄飞鸿之英雄有梦” which uses a descriptive qualitative approach combined with interdisciplinary studies of cognitive linguistic and cultural studies yielded fifteen data that have proven that non-physical violence in Kungfu films has its own beauty. Negative diction, the selection of linguistic components, to the use of idioms as a characteristic of Chinese culture are some of the non-physical violent of the media found. In the end, theoretically and practically this research can be used in many opportunities such as linguistic learning, cultural introduction, or become the basis of future research.

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“…People with different backgrounds react to inputs differently and communicate differently, so their tolerance for the presence of offensive terms, e.g., slur, may differ, as well as what is altogether considered offensive (Jay and Janschewitz, 2008). Cultural differences have been explored in humor perception (Jiang et al, 2019), swearing reception (Pavesi and Zamora, 2022), translation in semantic inconsistencies (Sperber et al, 1994) and honorifics expression (Song, 2015;Liu and Kobayashi, 2022). Even in less obvious cases, however, they bear meaningful significance on how to pose and solve NLP tasks, as cultures differ with respect to style, values, common ground and topics of interest (Hershcovich et al, 2022).…”

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Cross-Cultural Transfer Learning for Chinese Offensive Language Detection

Zhou,

Cabello,

Cao

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)

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Detecting offensive language is a challenging task. Generalizing across different cultures and languages becomes even more challenging: besides lexical, syntactic and semantic differences, pragmatic aspects such as cultural norms and sensitivities, which are particularly relevant in this context, vary greatly. In this paper, we target Chinese offensive language detection and aim to investigate the impact of transfer learning using offensive language detection data from different cultural backgrounds, specifically Korean and English. We find that culture-specific biases in what is considered offensive negatively impact the transferability of language models (LMs) and that LMs trained on diverse cultural data are sensitive to different features in Chinese offensive language detection. In a few-shot learning scenario, however, our study shows promising prospects for non-English offensive language detection with limited resources. Our findings highlight the importance of cross-cultural transfer learning in improving offensive language detection and promoting inclusive digital spaces.

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The reception of swearing in film dubbing: a cross-cultural case study

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Nonphysical Violence in Kung Fu Film: “黄飞鸿之英雄有梦”

Cross-Cultural Transfer Learning for Chinese Offensive Language Detection

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