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The present article focuses on dubbing understood as a creative process of “adapting” the source language script/verbalized message/soundtrack to the target language script/verbalized message/soundtrack, challenging principles such as fidelity versus freedom in translation, bringing once again to our attention the much debated ‘reality’ pinpointed by the Italian adage “traduttore tradittore”, yet not from the point of view of untranslatability, but from that of the need for “transadaptation” in the interlingual transfer required by the audiovisual industry.

On Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The present article focuses on dubbing understood as a creative process of “adapting” the source language script/verbalized message/soundtrack to the target...

On Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 51 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0008

Keywords
audiovisual translation, dubbing, fidelity, BTI Studios

© 2019 Cristina Nicolae, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

On Audiovisual Translation: Dubbing

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 51 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0008

Keywordsaudiovisual translation, dubbing, fidelity, BTI Studios

© 2019 Cristina Nicolae, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
audiovisual translation, dubbing, fidelity, BTI Studios