Globalization and the Translation of Minority Languages in Film Subtitling

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Abstract

This chapter explores how, as part of an ongoing and unsettling process of globalization, the invasion of the English language in the audiovisual media is having a significant impact on the way minority languages are transferred through film subtitling. It analyses the translation of culture-bound elements found in a corpus of 14 Catalan-language films and in their English-subtitled versions, focusing on translation techniques and overall strategies following these parameters: audiovisual constraints, interculturality, film genre, domain and translation techniques. A quantitative analysis of the results allows the description of general trends observed and the identification of translation behaviour adopted by the subtitlers when rendering culture-bound elements from the original Catalan films into their English-subtitled version.

Keywords

Audiovisual constraints Domain Globalization Film genre Domain Interculturality Translation techniques 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of EssexColchesterUK

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