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Publication Date: 2025-Jan
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Strategies in Subtitling Jordanian Dialect on Netflix: A Case Study of AlRawabi School for Girls
Ahmad Al-Harahsheh1; Mona Malkawi1; Rasha Al-Motlak1
SAGE Open, v15 n1 2025
This study explores the challenges faced by Netflix subtitlers and the strategies used to translate Jordanian dialectal expressions into English in the Netflix miniseries "AlRawabi School for Girls." The corpus of this study consists of 50 authentic examples extracted from the series. Adopting a descriptive approach to translation studies, as suggested by Gideon (1995), our analysis reveals three major findings relevant to subtitling Jordanian dialectal expressions in English: (a) Some dialectal expressions are omitted or altered by replacing them with standard language to fit the Netflix target audience; (b) the Netflix subtitler applied a variety of subtitling strategies, most commonly pragmatic translation; and (c) the subtitling in most of the examples conveyed the intended meaning, albeit with a considerable loss of cultural context from the source language. Finally, this study concludes that the Netflix subtitler adopted a target-oriented translation, thus depriving the target audience of experiencing the cultural characteristics of the Jordanian dialect.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Dialects, Captions, Television, Translation, English (Second Language), Pragmatics, Cultural Context, Audiovisual Aids, Scripts, Language Usage, Accuracy
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Jordan
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Author Affiliations: 1Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan