Explicitation in legal translation: a feature of expertise?

Vesterager, Anja Krogsgaard

doi:10.4324/9781351031226-6

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“…This is considered over-translation or translation gain, and since such lexical expansion involves two elements: the transliterated term alongside the added detail, it is known as translation couplet (Alwazna, 2014c;Šarčević, 1985). Explicitation points to the technique that involves lexical expansion, or to the strategy that makes implicit detail in the ST explicit in the TT (Alwazna, 2023;Krogsgaard Vesterager, 2019;Pedersen, 2005). Addition, on the other hand, refers to certain materials added to the TT, the content of which is implicit and latent in the CR concerned.…”

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Translating Cultural References and Sensitive Elements Between Arabic and English: Netflix Subtitles as a Case Study

El-Farahaty,

Alwazna

2024

Sage Open

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The present paper explores all the cultural references (CRs) and sensitive elements (SEs) found in the English and Arabic subtitles of the two films available on Netflix, entitled: “ عسل أسود” ( Bittersweet) and “ Holidate,” examining the subtitling strategies adopted for translating them and analyzing the translation issues associated with their translations. The paper uses a mixed method, conducting both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The paper claims that different CRs and SEs found in the two films under study have been translated, using diverse subtitling strategies. Their translations in both the two films have caused translation loss, particularly in the cultural references attached thereto. Such loss is mainly due to the inappropriate use of the subtitling strategies adopted for the translation of CRs and SEs. Certain translations of CRs and SEs are justifiable due to different factors, such as multimodality, time and space restrictions, cultural religious sensitivity, translator ethics, and so on.

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