English to Chinese fansub translation of humour in The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel

Yee Han Tee; Mansour Amini; Ching Sin Siau; Amin Amirdabbaghian

doi:10.35699/1983-3652.2022.37677

Auteurs

Yee Han Tee UCSI University Malaysia, Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9779-0915
Mansour Amini Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Languages, Literacies and Translation, Penang, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-4604
Ching Sin Siau Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7612-6839
Amin Amirdabbaghian Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Languages, Literacies and Translation, Penang, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6503-8446

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.35699/1983-3652.2022.37677

Mots-clés :

Chinese, English, Fansub, Humor, Subtitling

Résumé

Humour is bounded by culture or language, and it involves shared knowledge and history between the sender and the receiver, which could make humour subtitling even more complicated. This study aimed at exploring the subtitling strategies used in fansub in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as the humour elements of source and target text in each humour, and the translation errors made in English to Chinese fansub. Humour instances were identified and analysed, and the subtitling strategies used by fans were explained. The findings showed the inconsistent quality of fansub could be due to linguistic and technical constraints, insufficient cultural knowledge of the source and target cultures, and deviations from translation norms, resulting in linguistic, pragmatic, cultural and text-specific translation errors. The study could have some theoretical and practical implications for translators, subtitlers, and trainers.

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