Le sous titrage en français des séries télévisées américaines : normes linguistiques et pratiques professionnelles
American television series are such an integral aspect of popular culture that different audiovisual translations into French exist in various parts of the world. Not only are these series dubbed to be broadcast on television, they may be subtitled up to three times, usually in this order: by fans online; in Quebec for North American DVD sales; and in France for European DVD sales. While all subtitling endeavours face the same constraints, namely linguistic (those of the French language) and technical (for airing on the small screen), each deals with the original dialogue in its own fashion. We will start by identifying the practices of both professional and amateur translators. Next, we will analyze a number of translations and compare them to a corpus of similar television series originally produced in France or French Quebec to establish the cultural and linguistic standards applied by different translators to determine what is known as “Canadian French.” This thesis was written with a view to expanding descriptive and sociological studies. We will describe herein the professional reality of audiovisual translators, as well as the influence of fansubbers on not only professional translation practice, but also on new translation methods to train the next generation of translators. By studying several translations of the same work, we can demonstrate that the different varieties of French cannot, on account of the relatively few purely linguistic differences that exist, justify the proliferation of the number of subtitled versions available.
Translation Subtitling Variety Norms Training