ANALYSIS OF HENRIK GOTTLIEB'S SUBTITLE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES IN FIVE DIFFERENT FILM GENRES

Abstract

Translation is a field that has existed since ancient times and gained different dimensions through developments in technology. One of the concrete examples of this is the field of Audio-Visual Translation (AVT) which has not been considered as a type of translation for a long time due to its limitations but has taken its place within Translation Studies in the 1920s, and the number of researches and studies on this field have increased today. AVT expresses the interlingual transfer of presented audio-visual materials. When it is said AVT, three different audiovisual types come to mind in Turkey: dubbing, subtitling, and voice-over. In this study, subtitling, a type of audiovisual translation, will be analyzed in the light of Henrik Gottlieb's subtitle translation strategies (explanation, paraphrase, transfer, imitation, transcription, dislocation, condensation, decimation, deletion, resignation) to determine whether these strategies can be applied in the translation of subtitles from English into Turkish and if they can be, to find out usage rate. Accordingly, the first 30 minutes of the movies, The Dark Knight in action, Inception in science fiction, Hachi: A Dog's Tale in drama, Shaun of the Dead in comedy and Get Out in horror are discussed. In this study, where the corpus-based approach has been used, the analyzes performed have been presented descriptively and comparatively, and each strategy has been evaluated via its explanations and examples.