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Le doublage, à la frontière entre traduction et adaptation ?
No full textLa traduction audiovisuelle, si elle est se prête à la glose métaphorique du passage de frontière linguistique comme toute autre forme de traduction, remet pourtant en question le concept de frontière : de l’écrit au parlé, de l’oral spontané à l’oral de performance, de l\u27entendu au vu, la ligne est imprécise. La frontière est donc plus vecteur de passage dans un continuum que de fermeture, malgré ce processus très contraint qu\u27est le doublage, dont nous nous attachons ici à définir les modalités, en approfondissant les concepts de traduction et d’adaptation : la littérature scientifique montre qu’ils se refusent à toute délimitation normative et sont l\u27objet d\u27un constat débat.
Notre intérêt se porte notamment sur la place de l’adaptateur-dialoguiste comme passeur linguistique et culturel du "texte" filmique, et sur l’importance de l’interprétation et de la phase de réception dans les choix traductifs induits, en particulier pour le doublage interlinguistique. L’image que se fait le traducteur du spectateur final devient alors déterminante pour subvertir avec succès la dichotomie auteur/cinéaste originel-spectateur allophone final. Nous nous appuyons pour cette étude sur la notion d’herméneutique comme exégèse et sur la théorie de la réception de Jauss et les notions afférentes d’Auteur et Spectateur modèles
The Curtain Call: Translating Performance in Text and Visual Media Creative Portfolio
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Where do borders lie in translated literature? The case of the changing English-language market
No full textAnecdotal accounts suggest that one reason for the perceived resistance to translated literature in English-language markets is that commissioning editors are averse to considering texts that they cannot read. In an attempt to overcome this barrier, English translations are increasingly commissioned by publishers of source texts and agents of source authors and used to stimulate interest in a book (not just in English-language markets), a phenomenon this article terms ‘source-commissioned translations’. This article considers how this phenomenon indicates a shift in the borders between literatures, how it disrupts accepted commercial practices, and the consequences of this for the industry and the role of English in the global book trade. In particular, it considers consequences for the quality of translations, questions regarding copyright, and the uncertain position for the translator when, at the time of translating, a contract is not in place between the translator and the publisher of the translation
Adventures in Music Translation: Italian Songs and Arias (aka “The Yellow Book”) and Me
No full textThis article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and performance of the art song, arguing that although critical interest in recent years has been growing, the problems involved in these hybrid translation projects involving both text and music present a number of conundrums: primacy of text or music, focus on performability, and age-old arguments about fidelity and/or foreignization vs domestication. Using information from theatre translation and input from singers themselves, the author argues that this particular area of translation studies will work best in the future with a collaborative approach that includes translators, musicologists, and performers working together in order to produce the most “singable” text as possible for the art song in performance
Translating Chicana Rap: Snow Tha Product
No full textThis project examines rap lyrics, interviews, and music videos by Chicana artist Snow Tha Product to show how rap has been culturally translated, performed, and appropriated by females in order to “flip the script,” or subvert the dichotomous model of female sexuality that has been imposed upon them. Weaving insights from three academic fields (cultural translation, Chican@ studies, and hip-hop feminism), this paper also aims to creatively expand the definition of translation by positioning rap music as a performative language in its own right, capable of encoding and translating complex cultural issues related to race, gender, and sexuality
Inhaling the Nation: The Cultural Translation and Symbolic Performance of the Cigar in Cuba
No full textThe following article uses a mixture of poetry and text to trace the cigar through various stages of Cuban history and highlights how the cigar has been translated and as a symbol useful to the construction of Cuban nationalism. In what ways does the cultural representation of the cigar throughout Cuban history create a performance of cultural values, identities, and heritage? As this paper reveals, such a question require us to translate the cigar smoke, to breathe in Cuban history, and to exhale the performance of metaphors
No linguistic borders ahead? Looking beyond the knocked-down language barrier
No full textThe article deals with the concept of borders and barriers in considering scenarios where the linguistic barrier is eventually lifted by technology one day. It begins with reflections on the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel as an ancient representation of the concept of linguistic barriers between language communities. It gives numerous examples of the uptake of this narrative, from Translation Studies, to project calls and the marketing statements of machine translation technology. In the following section, examples of existing technology are presented, which could be considered as a first generation of automatic translation/interpretation systems. In the main section, several trends are predicted for both the translators’ profession and general economic/business/political/societal developments. The consequences are anticipated of a situation where ordinary cross-language communication will eventually have been almost fully taken over by automated systems. The article points to both the technology’s positive potential and, by showing the eventual risks involved, it equally rejects an attitude of the technology’s uncritical uptake. The article closes by pointing to the ethical dimension of machine translation systems linked with their types of uses and the choices reserved for their users
The Translation of Graphemes in Anime in Its Original and Fansubbed Versions
No full textAnime, Japanese animation, is massive, with “60% of the animation in the world made in Japan” (Goto-Jones 2009, 3). Anime occasionally makes an innovative use of graphemes on screen, but this has not been studied so far. This study, then, describes and analyses how graphemes have been translated in anime, presenting a series of cases, but concentrating on three particular releases: Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, and Tōkyō Godfathers, products that feature a frequent and innovative use of graphemes in its anime. These graphemes are categorised into two types: (1) the ones that are part of the original anime and (2) the graphemes added in fansubbed anime. Much anime is fansubbed (subtitled by fans), and these fans are not constrained by the industry’s rules, meaning that they have complete liberty in subtitling, allowing for really creative forms of subtitling. Even if this freedom can sometimes be taken to the extreme—with subtitles covering the entire screen—fansubs have shown creative subtitling solutions, specially in the case of graphemes that cover a great part of the screen. After describing and analysing these graphemes and how they have been subtitled, this article concludes that, even if fansubs can frequently be excessive, they are at the fore of creativity, and present better solutions than official subtitles in the translation of graphemes in anime
