Résumés
Abstract
The objectives of this article are to illustrate how American English swearwords are under-translated in Hong Kong; to explain why English swearwords are inadequately translated in Hong Kong in terms of patronage, illocutionary strategies, and socio-linguistics; to advocate the adoption of Cantonese dynamic equivalents in subtitling English-speaking movies, in particular, American swearwords; to suggest Cantonese dynamic equivalents for American swearwords in Chinese subtitling; and to emphasize the need to pay attention to linguistic, psychosexual, and religious differences between Chinese and Western cultures when subtitling American swearwords.
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- Cantonese subtitling,
- censorship,
- comparative cultural studies,
- English swearwords,
- films
Résumé
Nous nous efforcerons dans les pages qui suivent de montrer comment les jurons de l’anglo-américain sont sous-traduits à Hong Kong. Nous tenterons d’expliquer en termes d’autorité sociale, de stratégies illocutionnaires et sociolinguistiques pourquoi ces jurons ne sont pas traduits correctement, et nous préconiserons pour leur sous-titrage chinois l’adoption d’équivalents cantonais plus dynamiques. À cet effet nous soulignerons le besoin de prendre en compte les différences linguistiques, psycho sexuelles et religieuses entre les cultures chinoise et occidentales dans la traduction des jurons américains.
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