• Adel Esmaeeli Salumahaleh

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• Khalil Mirzayi

  Author

The translation of culture-bound elements could be a very important task
due to the fact that such elements have specific meanings in the culture and language
in which they arise but not necessarily in others. Regarding this, the present study
showed the strategies used in translation of culture-bound elements in the English
subtitles of the Iranian film ‘a segregation’ and the frequency of such strategies.
These culture-bound elements were categorized based on the taxonomy presented by
Pedersen (2005). The data were gathered from the Persian movie a segregation which
was subtitled into English. To gather the required data, the mentioned film was viewed
and its original transcript was extracted. Then, the culture-bound elements of this film
were detected and were compared with their English subtitles according to mentioned
taxonomy to identify the strategies used in translating them. Finally, the frequency of
the employed strategies was studied in order to find which strategy has the highest
potential for conveying the intended meaning.

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