• Maryam Fathi

  Author

• Dr. Reza Pasha Moghimizadeh

  Author

Communicating methods between nations, which lead to transfer the cultural
entities and identify the communities, have a wide field such as movie and among them
Audio Visual Translation (AVT) has the most important function for conveying cultural
concepts and signs. Subtitling as a subcategory of AVT has a widespread application in
communicating and issuing cultural traits. This article aims at investigating the extent that
English subtitles used from the ‘A Separation’ Iranian film could transfer the potential
concept of verbal cultural signs. The researcher has used Gottlieb’s (1992) strategies of
subtitling for the first part of study and the suggestions of Hatim and Mason (1990) for
translation of the cultural signs for the main part of analysis of the subtitles. The results
show that in translation of verbal cultural signs of the ‘A Separation’ Iranian film, transfer
strategy happened with the highest rank among the other Gottlieb’s strategies and this
strategy with the most frequency could transfer the potential meaning, also most of the
religious concepts were translated by using the imitation and transfer strategies. The more
analysis indicate that in some cases the translator could not convey the potential meaning
of verbal cultural signs from the original dialogues of the film to English subtitles.

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