Fansubbers’ Subtitling Strategies of Swear Words from English into Arabic in the <i>Bad Boys</i> Movies

Abstract This research investigates the strategies used by fansubbers to translate English culture-bound expressions into Arabic. It further functions of swear words and how fansubber regenerated their functional connotations. The corpus study consists subtitles Arabic fansubs Bad Boys movies. researchers analyzed data both quantitatively qualitatively. frameworks adopted in this are proposed Diaz-Cintas Remael classification model presented Ljung. findings showed that rendered using seven strategies, most dominant which is omission at almost 37%. Other varied percentage with: transposition, second-most utilized 29%, followed explicitation (25%), calques (8%), loanwords (0.2%), lexical creation (0.5%), compensation (0.13%). results these were sometimes wrongly due lack guidelines for fansubs. On other hand, function swearing movie standalone one. Noticeably, connotation elements was often neglected fansubber. Thus, lacking accuracy. Finally, current provides some implications recommendations translators when handling expressions.