This article explores translation strategies in English and French versions of Japanese comic books, comparing English and French dialogue text regarding local color, atmospherics, and characterization. Section 1 describes Japanese comic books. Section 2 examines translation strategies. Sections 3 and 4 discuss local color and character locus (translation of culture-specific items and of non-st...

Since the cultural turn in translation studies was proposed, researchers have focused on elements translation. How to construct identity needs be taken into consideration. Meanwhile, culture-specific items (hereafter, CSIs) are one of most difficult issues for translators, especially literary Researchers put forward different strategies solve problems CSIs and explored use those specific textua...

Part of the recent Saudi National Transformation program Vision 2030 is significant growth tourism sector. Opening up country to international tourists means facilitating access culture through translation, where role translators as cultural mediators salient. In context, mediation in translation an under-researched topic. This paper addresses following question: What interventionst and do they...

With the technological developments and globalization process especially after 1980s, translations have gained new functions as ‘cultural products’ that are consumed by people in various parts of world. Today, works popular literature can reach from diverse cultures a very short time through translation. These conditions require evaluation socio-cultural these with perspective field translation...

The film, Gua Sha Treatment, is regarded as a global successful in spreading Chinese culture internationally. Its subtitles are normally loaded with culture-specific items which may directly or indirectly influence the acceptability of film audiences. By collecting and classifying subtitle translation paper analyzes its from perspective domestication foreignization. It demonstrates that priorit...