Integrating Vermeer’s Skopos Theory into Newmark’s Strategies for Exploring Cultural Problems in Subtitles: A Case Study of the American series Thirteen Reasons Why
Abstract:The present study explored some basic cultural problems that translators face during subtitling audiovisual texts, particularly TV series from English into Arabic. The study also provided functional analysis of the solutions occasionally chosen by professional Netflix subtitlers to overcome those cultural problems. The study aimed at showing whether the strategies frequently chosen by the subtitler to deal with particular problematic cultural features were equally successful in achieving functional adequacy in… Show more
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