Traduction Classique et Sous-Titrage : Analyse Comparative

Sadaf Mohseni**

Fundamental differences between the tasks of a classic translator and those of an adapter will be dealt with in the second part of the study. In fact, these two types of translation have one point in common, i.e. transmitting the message from one language to another. While the form of the message does not change in the classic translation since there are written texts on both sides, in subtitling, the adapter translates oral messages into written ones.

And in the final section, fidelity in translation is analyzed. Infidelity to the original text in classic translation would be considered a big mistake of which a novice translator of the classic text should be aware. However, while subtitling, due to the impossibility of translating all the sentences being heard in a film or a documentary [into written text], fidelity to the form of the source language will not be regarded very appropriate. As a matter of fact, what the subtitle translator should be after, is finding what exactly the message [main idea] of the film is, or what should be translated and how this should be done.

Keywords— Classic Translation, subtitling, fidelity, written language, spoken language.

*Received: 2018/05/15                                                           Accepted: 2018/09/02

**Allameh Tabatabaei University, E-mail: sadafmohseni@gmail.com