An Analysis of the Choices for Subtitlers and Dubbers in the Translation of Address Forms from English into Turkish
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The Crown, Address terms, Address pronouns, Translator choices, Dubbing, SubtitlingAbstract
Address terms and address pronouns (T and V forms) play a significant role in the organisation of societies, and social and cultural norms. The AVT translator while translating the pronoun “‘you” from English into Turkish has to make a choice between the two alternatives “sen (T)” and “siz (V)” which are available in the target language. Naturalness, plausibility and spontaneity maintained through markers based on cultural, and sociolinguistic facts in the fictional verbality of the source text need to be achieved in the target language by means of translator choices. In this study, the choices of the translator in the subtitle and dubbing translations based on possible sociolinguistic explanations are dealt with through examples taken from the historical drama, “The Crown”. In light of contemporary audio-visual theories a comparative and descriptive analysis is carried out taking into consideration how the characters address each other throughout the dubbed and subtitled versions of the series, “The Crown”, the Netflix serial, a historical drama produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures. The initial part of the study deals with the address terms and second person address pronouns used in English and Turkish and their translation choices. In the analysis part, the historical drama, “The Crown” and the corpus of data collected and collated from randomly chosen seasons and parts focusing on how address terms and pronouns are translated in the dubbing and subtitling versions are introduced. The corpus of data entails how royal family members address each other in private and public settings, how they address royals and/or unroyals in social settings and which address terms royal family members use in official protocols. In the conclusion part, the importance of such analysis is discussed, with special emphasis on how this type of research serves as an example in the training of audiovisual translators and as material to be used during training in the AVT classroom.
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