Subtitling African American English Into French: Can We Do the Right Thing?

ISBN-13: 9783034318976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 246 str.

Díaz Cintas, Jorge

Opis

Like Mookie in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, translators are at the nexus between cultures, making difficult decisions with sometimes dramatic consequences. Drawing on the fields of translation studies, sociolinguistics and film studies, this book analyses the French subtitling of African American English in films from the USA.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Translation and Moral Dilemma - African American English and Its Representations - Subtitling and Linguistic Variation - Analysis of the French Subtitles of the Films of the Corpus - Domestication/Foreignization: A Valid Framework for the Study of Subtitled Films?

O autorze

Pierre-Alexis Mével is Assistant Professor in Translation Studies at the University of Nottingham and the founder and director of the MA in Translation Studies. He teaches translation theory and audiovisual translation at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Nottingham and has previously worked as a freelance translator. His research focuses on the representations of non-standard varieties in films.