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Guillot, Marie-Noëlle 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4382-8006
(2023)
Doing swearing across languages – The curious case of subtitling.
Journal of Pragmatics, 215.
pp. 41-54.
ISSN 0378-2166
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Abstract
How is swearing done in subtitling across languages? This study of subtitles in different languages for Lonergan's 2016 film Manchester by the sea addresses the question with a particular goal in mind: not so much to identify and typologise translation strategies for swearing in the dataset, or not just, but to inspect/document the range of resources involved, at the interface of linguistics and pragmatics, in generating meaning-making options for interlingual sense-making, and publics with very different linguistic and (socio-)cultural profiles. Most frequently occurring swearwords from dialogues in US English are considered in subtitling representation across the languages in the dataset – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Frequency and concordance data are the platform for qualitative analyses of a subset of units from different taboo domains in full textual context (‘fuck’, ‘shit’, ‘God’ and variants), from a broadly cross-cultural pragmatics perspective. The study is underpinned by two main lines of enquiry: how linguistic and/or pragmatic specificities of the languages considered may impact on representation; and critically, how the medium itself may shape representation above and beyond difference into a distinctive and richly expressive instantiation of cinematic discourse, as what is revealingly for translation, and pragmatics, the curious case of subtitling.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | interlingual sense-making,meaning-making,pragmatic indexing,subtitling,swearing,language and linguistics,linguistics and language,artificial intelligence ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2023 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2023 08:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92665 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2023.07.003 |
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