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TargetVol. 5:2 (1993) ► pp.169–190
The Question of French Dubbing
Towards a Frame for Systematic Investigation [1] 1
In order to analyze how "international messages" such as films are appropriated by a specific target system, I studied the French dubbed versions of a number of films. This analysis revealed a set of norms which seem to be at work on various text levels in the dubbed translations: a linguistic standardization, which affects three types of language use, a naturalization strategy, in which visual synchrony plays an important role, and a strategy which aims in various ways at making the translation more explicit than the original. The presentation of this tentative set of norms proposes a first synthetic view of the policy concerning dubbing in France.
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.Dubbing as a Translational Phenomenon
- 2.Towards an Analysis of Norms in Dubbing
- 2.1.Linguistic Standardization
- 2.2.Naturalization
- 2.3.Explicitation
- 2.4.Secondary Norms
- 3.Dubbing, Subtitling and Translation Studies
- 4.Dubbing, Subtitling and Societies
- Notes
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