On norms and taboo

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-05-25 DOI:10.1075/TARGET.20020.XAV

Catarina Xavier

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Abstract

Abstract Within Audiovisual Translation Studies, many studies have been dedicated to the subtitling of taboo words. Most of this research has been restricted to quantitative and qualitative data about translation strategies, with comparably less attention given to translation norms. As norms cannot be directly observed, their investigation raises methodological challenges for empirical studies. This paper proposes a model for the investigation of translation norms by triangulating data on observed regularities in the English to Portuguese subtitling of taboo words in a corpus of movies broadcast on Portuguese FTA (free-to-air, open-signal) television between 2001 and 2015, with questionnaire data on subtitlers’ attitudes towards the subtitling of taboo words on television. The results enable the identification of the most frequent subtitling strategies, their possible motivations, and the relevance of two contextual variables (time period and channel typology). Using the results, a (potential) norm regarding the subtitling of taboo words in Portugal is formulated. However, some of the data, both textual and extratextual, raise the question of whether there is also a competing norm at play.

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论规范与禁忌

摘要在视听翻译研究中，对禁忌语的字幕翻译进行了大量研究。这些研究大多局限于翻译策略的定量和定性数据，对翻译规范的关注相对较少。由于不能直接观察到规范，他们的调查对实证研究提出了方法上的挑战。本文通过对2001年至2015年葡萄牙自由电视(free- air, open-signal)播放的电影语料库中禁忌语英译葡萄牙语字幕的观察规律数据进行三角测量，并对字幕编配者对电视禁忌语字幕的态度进行问卷调查，提出了一个调查翻译规范的模型。研究结果能够识别最常见的字幕策略、可能的动机以及两个上下文变量(时间段和频道类型)的相关性。利用这些结果，制定了葡萄牙禁忌语字幕的(潜在)规范。然而，一些文本和文本外的数据提出了一个问题，即是否也有一种竞争规范在起作用。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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