Subtitling and Dubbing in Sex and the City and And Just Like That: Mediated Perspectives from English to Italian

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https://doi.org/10.46991/TSTP/2024.SI.2.135

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Sex and the City, And Just like That, translation, critical points

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the Italian dubbed and subtitled translations of selected episodes from the American TV series Sex and the City and its sequel And Just Like That. The analysis delves into the translation from English into Italian of the dialogues that are imbued with cultural references. The study examines the translation choices concerning swear words and idiomatic expressions by comparing the dubbed and subtitled versions. Starting from Munday’s theories, it aims to identify critical points in translational decision-making, namely, phrases and fragments of dialogues that require particular interpretations on the part of the translator. The study attempts to determine the extent to which the approach to translation from English into Italian is target audience-oriented. Finally, by considering the concept of linguaculture, the work explores the impact of this approach on the target culture in order to compare the American and Italian linguacultures.

Keywords: Sex and the City, And Just like That, translation, critical points.

Author Biography

Michele Russo, University of Foggia

Ph.D., Senior Researcher in English Language and Translation at the University of Foggia, Italy; former visiting professor of Italian Language and Literature at the Nazareth College of Rochester, New York, U.S.A.; author of scientific articles on translation, bilingualism and self- translation in Russian-American writers, like J. Brodsky, V. Nabokov, M. D. Shrayer, N. Berberova and G. Shteyngart; He is the author of three volumes: John Lawson. Nuovo viaggio in Carolina (Perugia: Morlacchi, 2012), Iosif Brodskij: saggi di letture intertestuali (Milano: LED, 2015), and A Plurilingual Analysis of Four Russian-American Autobiographies. Cournos, Nabokov, Berberova, Shteyngart (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2020). His interests include translation studies, discourse analysis, phraseology and ELT.

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2024-03-29

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Russo, M. (2024). Subtitling and Dubbing in Sex and the City and And Just Like That: Mediated Perspectives from English to Italian. Translation Studies: Theory and Practice, 135–146. https://doi.org/10.46991/TSTP/2024.SI.2.135

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Vol. SI-2 (2024)

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Part II

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