The translation of taboo words has attracted scholars’ interest in studying it in the audiovisual context over the last decades. The surge of research on this predominant form of translation in everyday life has brought to light the communicative, pragmatic, and semiotic aspects as well as the technical constraints for subtitling taboo words. Previous research has primarily taken a quantitative method, discussed issues that justify their results, and suggested possible outcomes from a potential receiver’s point of view. While contributing to existing related literature, this paper argues that there is a need for a thorough, detailed examination of translation options in subtitling taboo words. The paper presents a three-layered typology of methods, strategies, and techniques, which provides a comprehensive description of audiovisual translators’ options. Following a bottom-up/top-down approach, the proposed typography is then put to the test in a corpus-based case study comprising six movies and their professional subtitles broadcast on Portuguese televisions.
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La traductologie contemporaine replace au centre de sa recherche le traducteur dont la visibilité dans l’espace littéraire et scientifique a été longtemps occultée. Il n’est donc pas étonnant que le traducteur ait pu devenir un personnage de fiction ou le sujet d’une biofiction. Ces récits de soi entrepris par des traducteurs ont l’ambition de proposer à leurs lecteurs un geste réflexif sur ce qui se joue quand on entreprend de traduire. Aussi, en écho avec ce que certains appellent un « tournant fictionnel » (Vieira 1995), il nous semble tout à fait approprié de parler, à ce propos, de l’émergence d’un tournant métafictionnel dans les études de traduction. Dans notre article, nous mettrons en évidence le nouage (dans ses dimensions cognitive, culturelle et éthique) des discours autobiographique et traductologique tel qu’on le trouve dans, ce que nous qualifions de métafictions traductives, à savoir dans Portrait du traducteur en escroc de Bernard Hœpffner, Partages d’André Markowicz et Lycophron et Zétès de Pascal Quignard.
{"title":"Autoportraits de traducteurs","authors":"Galyna Dranenko","doi":"10.1075/babel.00285.dra","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00285.dra","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000La traductologie contemporaine replace au centre de sa recherche le traducteur dont la visibilité dans l’espace littéraire et scientifique a été longtemps occultée. Il n’est donc pas étonnant que le traducteur ait pu devenir un personnage de fiction ou le sujet d’une biofiction. Ces récits de soi entrepris par des traducteurs ont l’ambition de proposer à leurs lecteurs un geste réflexif sur ce qui se joue quand on entreprend de traduire. Aussi, en écho avec ce que certains appellent un « tournant fictionnel » (Vieira 1995), il nous semble tout à fait approprié de parler, à ce propos, de l’émergence d’un tournant métafictionnel dans les études de traduction. Dans notre article, nous mettrons en évidence le nouage (dans ses dimensions cognitive, culturelle et éthique) des discours autobiographique et traductologique tel qu’on le trouve dans, ce que nous qualifions de métafictions traductives, à savoir dans Portrait du traducteur en escroc de Bernard Hœpffner, Partages d’André Markowicz et Lycophron et Zétès de Pascal Quignard.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88331953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Yu (2015): Translating Feminism in China: Gender, sexuality and censorship","authors":"Xingpu Fan, C. Lin","doi":"10.1075/babel.00276.fan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00276.fan","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76467121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Through the analysis of a case of translation and censorship, this study offers a recreation of the microhistory of La terre (1883), by Émile Zola, at the time when this foreign French novel was imported into the Francoist literary system, focusing on the processes of reception, conditioning and appropriation to which this work was subjected by the Franco regime in order to ensure its ideological adequacy. The study of the two Spanish versions published during the dictatorship will show that Zola’s controversial novel went through an exercise of self-censorship and metacensorship which aimed mainly at silencing a clear anti-religious sentiment among the French peasant community depicted in the original text, seen as unacceptable under the catholic and agrarian society ruled by Franco.
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This paper takes a meta-analysis and synthesis approach to emphasize systemic functional linguistics’ contribution to translation studies. A coding book was designed to analyze 123 studies collected through email inquiry, database search, and manual examination. The paper reports on the substantive features and methodological features of the studies. Content analysis was presented on four major research themes: general translation, genre translation, interpreting, and translation training. After discussing the synthesis results, the paper is concluded with implications for future research.
{"title":"Applying systemic functional linguistics in translation studies","authors":"Shukun Chen, W. Xuan, Hailing Yu","doi":"10.1075/babel.00275.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00275.che","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper takes a meta-analysis and synthesis approach to emphasize systemic functional linguistics’ contribution\u0000 to translation studies. A coding book was designed to analyze 123 studies collected through email inquiry, database search, and\u0000 manual examination. The paper reports on the substantive features and methodological features of the studies. Content analysis was\u0000 presented on four major research themes: general translation, genre translation, interpreting, and translation training. After\u0000 discussing the synthesis results, the paper is concluded with implications for future research.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"444 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79657998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Berling, Gad, Petersen & Wæver (2022): Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures","authors":"Yingmei Liu","doi":"10.1075/babel.00281.liu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00281.liu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79413671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 2019, Yuval Harari, an Israeli historian and bestselling author, appeared in the center of a media debate provoked by the discovery of considerable differences between the English text of his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and its Russian translation. A comparative study of the English and Russian texts of the book featured in this paper revealed five major issues which turned out to be sensitive for the Russian censorship, namely, homosexuality, liberalism, U.S.S.R.–U.S. “tug-of-war,” Putin and Putin’s Russia, and Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Georgia. It is in the presentation of these topics that Yuval Harari’s English text suffered essential transformation and reduction in the Russian edition. The conducted analysis contributes to the long-lived debate about the author’s and the translator’s responsibility before their readers, and the boundaries, beyond which mutilation of the source text no longer allows regarding the resulting text as a translation. The author argues that the escalating information wars targeted at people’s minds in the twenty-first century impose ever-increasing requirements to authors and translators of such books as Yuval Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century in terms of intellectual integrity and professional ethics.
{"title":"A Russian lesson for the twenty-first century","authors":"Sergiy I. Sydorenko","doi":"10.1075/babel.00271.syd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00271.syd","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 2019, Yuval Harari, an Israeli historian and bestselling author, appeared in the center of a media debate\u0000 provoked by the discovery of considerable differences between the English text of his 21 Lessons for the 21st\u0000 Century and its Russian translation. A comparative study of the English and Russian texts of the book featured in\u0000 this paper revealed five major issues which turned out to be sensitive for the Russian censorship, namely, homosexuality,\u0000 liberalism, U.S.S.R.–U.S. “tug-of-war,” Putin and Putin’s Russia, and Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Georgia. It is in the\u0000 presentation of these topics that Yuval Harari’s English text suffered essential transformation and reduction in the Russian\u0000 edition. The conducted analysis contributes to the long-lived debate about the author’s and the translator’s responsibility before\u0000 their readers, and the boundaries, beyond which mutilation of the source text no longer allows regarding the resulting text as a\u0000 translation. The author argues that the escalating information wars targeted at people’s minds in the twenty-first century impose\u0000 ever-increasing requirements to authors and translators of such books as Yuval Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st\u0000 Century in terms of intellectual integrity and professional ethics.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87270962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transcreation is a practice with a status that has to date not been consolidated in the field of Translation Studies. While some authors consider that the term brings little value to the discipline (Bernal Merino 2006; Gambier and Munday 2014), others define transcreation as a service involving the creative adaptation of marketing and advertising content (Pedersen 2014; TAUS 2019) or as a strategy adopted in creative areas like AVT (Malenova 2017; Chaume 2018), localization (Mangirón and O’Hagan 2006; Crosignani and Ravetto 2011) and literary translation (Lal 1996; De Campos 2013). The above definitions reflect the perspectives of the language services industry and academia. However, the points of view of individual language professionals have not usually been considered when conceptualizing transcreation. The purpose of this paper is to address these perceptions by adopting a social qualitative approach by means of an instrument called “The DTP Survey.” The results of this survey seem to point to a dual definition of transcreation as both a service and a strategy, with both approaches being compatible and not mutually exclusive as they have been in previous characterizations of the practice.
{"title":"Is transcreation a service or a strategy?","authors":"O. Carreira","doi":"10.1075/babel.00277.car","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00277.car","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Transcreation is a practice with a status that has to date not been consolidated in the field of Translation\u0000 Studies. While some authors consider that the term brings little value to the discipline (Bernal Merino 2006; Gambier and Munday 2014), others define transcreation\u0000 as a service involving the creative adaptation of marketing and advertising content (Pedersen\u0000 2014; TAUS 2019) or as a strategy adopted in creative areas like AVT (Malenova 2017; Chaume 2018), localization\u0000 (Mangirón and O’Hagan 2006; Crosignani and\u0000 Ravetto 2011) and literary translation (Lal 1996; De Campos 2013). The above definitions reflect the perspectives of the language services industry and\u0000 academia. However, the points of view of individual language professionals have not usually been considered when conceptualizing\u0000 transcreation. The purpose of this paper is to address these perceptions by adopting a social qualitative approach by means of an\u0000 instrument called “The DTP Survey.” The results of this survey seem to point to a dual definition of transcreation as both a\u0000 service and a strategy, with both approaches being compatible and not mutually exclusive as they have been in previous\u0000 characterizations of the practice.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84861639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As films are distributed across the globe, film song translation has become a subject of study, which entails considering multi-modal factors. This paper aims to explore the major dimensions and parameters involved in film song translation. Based on previous research on music and translation, this paper proposes a framework for studying film song translation from verbal, vocal, and visual dimensions. The verbal dimension involves semantic meaning, metaphors, images, mood, and emotion. The vocal dimension includes the number of syllables and musical notes, the length of musical notes, rhyme and parallelism, the rise and fall of the melody, and the segmentation of a line. The visual dimension covers the plot, characters, and background pictures. This paper uses this framework to analyze the Chinese translation of Amazing Grace in the film Forever Young to demonstrate how film song translation can be flexible in tackling verbal, vocal, and visual restrictions and possibilities.
{"title":"Film song translation: Verbal, vocal, and visual dimensions","authors":"Yin Cui, Hui Wang","doi":"10.1075/babel.00280.cui","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00280.cui","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As films are distributed across the globe, film song translation has become a subject of study, which entails\u0000 considering multi-modal factors. This paper aims to explore the major dimensions and parameters involved in film song translation.\u0000 Based on previous research on music and translation, this paper proposes a framework for studying film song translation from\u0000 verbal, vocal, and visual dimensions. The verbal dimension involves semantic meaning, metaphors, images, mood, and emotion. The\u0000 vocal dimension includes the number of syllables and musical notes, the length of musical notes, rhyme and parallelism, the rise\u0000 and fall of the melody, and the segmentation of a line. The visual dimension covers the plot, characters, and background\u0000 pictures. This paper uses this framework to analyze the Chinese translation of Amazing Grace in the film\u0000 Forever Young to demonstrate how film song translation can be flexible in tackling verbal, vocal, and visual\u0000 restrictions and possibilities.","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89038661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Zhang & Feng (2020): Multimodal Approaches to Chinese-English Translation and Interpreting","authors":"H. Mohamed, Zhanhao Jiang","doi":"10.1075/babel.00282.jia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00282.jia","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44441,"journal":{"name":"Babel-Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75321534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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