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Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario / Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields
Editado por Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Lucía Navarro-Brotons y Iván Martínez-Blasco
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 45] 2025
► pp. 74–91

Kulturbezüge in der voice-over Übersetzung von multilingualen Filmen

Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Übertragung

 | Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies, Kaunas Faculty Vilnius University
The aim of the study is to determine the transfer possibilities of cultural references in the voice-over translation of multilingual films into Lithuanian. The corpus consists of cultural references from five multilingual films, which were systematised according to the translation process. The comparative-descriptive combination of methods used in this qualitative pilot study leads to the following findings. Cultural references are generally described as either linguistic or extralinguistic. In relation to translation in film — as mono-, trans- or infracultural. An inconsistent rendering of multilingualism is observed. In dialogues with more than two languages, rare languages are neglected unless there are partial subtitles in a dominant language. Four translation procedures have proven to be predominant: the direct transfer of cultural references, omission, hyperonymic transfer and substitution.
Keywords: audiovisual translation, multilingualism, cultural references, translation strategies
Article outline
  • 1.Einleitung
  • 2.Kulturbezüge und ihre typen
  • 3.Multilinguale Filme und die audiovisuelle Übersetzung
    • 3.1Multilinguale Filme als Filmgattung
    • 3.2Zur Wiedergabe des Multilingualismus im Filmkorpus
  • 4.Zum Übertragungspotenzial von Kulturbezügen
    • 4.1Tendenzen in der audiovisuellen Übersetzung
    • 4.2Übersetzungsverfahren am Beispiel der voice-over Übersetzung mehrsprachiger Filme
  • 5.Schlussfolgerungen
  • Author queries
  • Literaturverzeichnis
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Article language: Spanish

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