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

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Subtitling is a challenging task, especially when the source text (ST) is culturally bound/specific. This paper aims to identify and assess the strategies used by professional translators to render culturally specific references from Egyptian Arabic to English in the Egyptian award-winning movie Feathers. To this end, Pedersen’s (2011) typology was employed to identify the translation strategies, and Pedersen’s (2017) FAR model was used to assess the quality of subtitles. The results showed that Pedersen’s suggested strategies were used, except for using an official equivalent, with a higher tendency towards target-text-oriented (TT-oriented) strategies: substitution, generalization, and omission. The results also proposed that formality is an extra translation strategy that accompanies other strategies, rather than being a media-specific constraint. Moreover, the quality assessment indicated that most subtitles are of high quality with some occurrences of minor errors mostly related to functionality.

Source: Heliyon

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19095

Authors: Ahmed M. Alaa, Islam Al Sawi

Institutions: Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, October University of Modern Sciences and Arts

Language: English

Topic: Translation Studies and Practices

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,100

OpenAlex ID: W4385727992

FWCI: 23.86

Cites: 24

Cited by: 31

Related to: 10