The practice of retranslation in subtitling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22024771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge Díaz Cintas (0000-0002-1058-5757, Universitat Jaume I, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-73 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Translation Spaces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-3711 • E-ISSN: 2211-372X |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ts.25067.dia |
| OpenAlex | W7130664892 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
This article examines the practice of retranslation within the context of subtitling, an area that has received little attention compared to literary works. Using a corpus of English translations of the French film La Haine , it highlights the complexities of resubtitling due to technical and multimodal constraints, while evaluating how retranslations handle non-standard language and cultural references. The analysis shows that with new translations cultural references get closer to the source text, a finding that aligns with the so-called retranslation hypothesis, whereas in the translation of marked speech this parallelism is less straightforward. The results suggest that the practice of resubtitling is far from predictable and cannot be moulded on the premises of the retranslation hypothesis
Corpus linguistics · Cultural practice · Discourse analysis · Translation studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media · Translation Studies and Practices
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Subtitling Norms for Television
Overhearing Film Dialogue
The retranslation pact
Reprocessing texts. The fine line between retranslating and revising
Narrative Theory and Retranslation Theory
Testing the retranslation hypothesis for audiovisual translation
Cultural Interchangeability
Retranslations
La retraduction, retour et détour
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
| Highly cited | No |
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