“I’ll be there, same time, same place!” A decade in translating Hungarian realia into English in audiovisual translation

Audiovisual translation (AVT), albeit originated back in the early 20th century, only started gaining popularity past decades, and poses unique challenges compared to traditional translation. Not does translator have face limitation placed by time length constraints lip movement of characters, but beside verbal elements, also non-verbal ones (sounds, music, images, etc.) define target-language text. This characteristic movies makes task translating realia, or culture-specific notions, rather hard. The can - has choose from a wide range methods that be somewhere on spectrum between two main trends: domestication foreignisation, opting for either bringing target language (TL) text closer culture (TC), preserve it some extent source (SC). goals present paper are twofold. On one hand, intends support validity taxonomy adjusted specifically realia AVT previous study, which allows measure foreignisation expressed numbers. other provides case study Hungarian film trilogy its English subtitles with aim discovering shift trends towards over time.