This paper deals with the interchangeability of culture, and seeks to answer the question of whether there are situations in which culture is interchangeable, whether one item of culture could be substituted for another. On a pretheoretic level, the answer would probably be ‘no’. If you have your mind set on watching the Royal Shakespeare Company perform The Merchant of Venice, you are not like...

Idiomatic expressions are with a figurative meaning different from their literal meaning, and therefore, they cannot be understood literally. This study aims to scrutinize some aspects of the translation idiomatic in mystery movie entitled ‘Murder on Orient Express’. Seventy-seven were found movie. The idioms can categorized as follows: keywords uses (16) nouns adjectives (2), pairs (1), prepos...

The current study investigates the strategies of translating cultural references applied in Kurdish subtitles American movie entitled ‘Scent a Woman’. This research also determines parameters that affect application translation on movie. In doing so, English audio scripts (i.e., source text) and their target text), were compared interpreted accordance with Pedersen’s taxonomy subtitling (2011)....