Profanity and blasphemy in the subtitling of English into European Spanish: four case studies based on a selection of Tarantino’s films
The combination of profanity and blasphemy can be said to be one of the most delicate taboo categories to deal with on the screen. It is in the context of audiovisual translation (AVT) where professionals have to make challenging decisions when transferring these elements. Thus, should audiovisual t...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/6351 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6351 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 811.111'25=134.2 791Tarantino, Quentin Blasphemy and profanity Interlingual subtitling Descriptive Translation Studies Faithfulness Self-censorship. Blasfèmia i profanitat Subtitulació interlingüística Estudis de traducció descriptiva Fidelitat Autocensura. Cine (Ciencias de la Información) Lengua española Traducción e interpretación Filología inglesa 3325.03 Cinematografía 5701.13 Lingüística Aplicada a la Traducción E Interpretación 5505.10 Filología |
| Summary: | The combination of profanity and blasphemy can be said to be one of the most delicate taboo categories to deal with on the screen. It is in the context of audiovisual translation (AVT) where professionals have to make challenging decisions when transferring these elements. Thus, should audiovisual translators be faithful to the source text or is it legitimate that they tone down the load of profanity and blasphemy? This paper describes the subtitling into European Spanish of a corpus composed of some of Tarantino’s films on the grounds of profane and blasphemous phrases which could provoke a strong reaction from the audience. Among the main goals of this paper are: scrutinising (1) if the religious phrases under analysis are transferred faithfully; and (2) whether or not cases of blasphemy in the target text have been encountered. In a nutshell, this study aims to explore the treatment of profanity and blasphemy in the subtitles produced for the Spanish audience. |
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