ПОМИЛКИ В АУДІОВІЗУАЛЬНОМУ ПЕРЕКЛАДІ: ЛІНГВІСТИЧНИЙ І ДИДАКТИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТИ
Journal Title: Вісник Київського національного лінгвістичного університету. Серія Філологія - Year 2018, Vol 21, Issue 1
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Introduction: Mistakes in audiovisual translation are generally caused by a wide range of lingual and extralingual factors. Translators’ unawareness of the nature of these factors hampers the process of translation and results in misinterpretation of the message by the addressee. With fansubbing and crowdsourcing spreading worldwide, more and more experts are becoming concerned with poor quality translations sprouting up before or simultaneously with the professionally interpreted or dubbed versions. Ukraine seems to have finally overcome the hardly comprehensible voiceover of pirate DVDs (a sad legacy of the early 1990s). However, Ukrainian audience is still struggling to understand some of the ‘quick fix’ versions of TV series, which appear to be too numerous to be properly translated. Purpose: The objective of the article is to analyze typical mistakes that can occur in audiovisual translation and to outline the major causes of these mistakes. Methods: The research is based on randomly selected cases of inadequate voiceover translation of English fiction and documentary series into Ukrainian and Russian. The choice of the films was prompted by the commentaries of Internet-users who indicated insufficient quality of translation of these films. Mistakes found were then analyzed from the point of view of language and culture-specific constraints, interpreting mode constraints and personal constraints that might have affected the translator’s choice. Results: Apart from widely known linguistic phenomena of polysemy, homonymy, lexical lacunas, there are other stumbling blocks to faithful translation, such as lack of attention to historical and cultural context, inappropriate stylistic toning, thematic irrelevance, and evenblunt incoherence of verbal and visual features, etc. Due to the multimode nature of audiovisual translations some of the problems could easily be solved if translators actually watched the film, instead of hastily working on the script. Conclusions: Similar analysis of translators’ mistakes is suggested as a means of teaching novice translators to develop efficient tools of overcoming difficult cases while translating foreign films.
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