A Descriptive Analysis of Non-obligatory Shifts in Three Disney Animated Films Dubbed into Modern Standard Arabic

This qualitative quantitative descriptive-analytical study aimed to describe the non-obligatory shifts employed in three English Disney animated films dubbed into MSA by applying Toury’s (1995/2012) normative model and introduced course of his applied case studies. The researcher described analyzed preliminary, initial operational norms (non-obligatory shifts) on level textual segments: lexical-semantic, stylistic, prosodic. compared those with original choices versions selected films. In light theory (1995/2012), current investigated hypothesis that accepted socio-cultural, ideological, linguistic Arabic culture directed chosen dubbers animations MSA. investigation was conducted application studies, namely, Tangled (2010), Frozen (2013) Big Hero 6 (2014). order decide most frequently used process dubbing, frequency rate each shift calculated determine highest shift. came conclusion there is a direct relationship between (operational norms) during dubbing one hand imposed target other hand. Those governed not only but also preliminary Affected norms, Arab dubbers’ tendency towards producing acceptable rather than adequate translations decided norms.