URCL 2016
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Item An Analysis on Sinhalese Subtitling on the Movie "The Dictator”(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kaushalya, H.; Wickramasinghe, C.; Gunawardhana, T.The cinema is a captivating, if complex route to the cultural sphere where it is born, which makes it difficult for the spectators from another lin/,'llistic dimension to grasp the notion behind the screen. This is one ofthe areas in which translators are most visible with their work in subtitling. Subtitling is the bridge that links those two cultural spheres that appear as a textual version of dialogue, in a movie that are usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. It is generally agreed that subtitling via cultures is rather a difficult task. This study is based on the film "The Dictator" by Larry Charles where a dictator who dreams that democracy would never come to his country he so lovingly oppressed. It extends for a time duration of ninety minutes with constant dialogues. A Sinhalese version of subtitling has never been released. When analysed, several factors could be identified as the notion behind this. The biggest problem a translator would encounter during the process of subtitling the movie is the unique language style of the protagonist. He has such an absurd composition that he uses a lot of personal affiictions, swearing and slang from a language combination of Hebrew, Arabic and English. Transferring satire is the other complication a translator may encounter. Satire plays a major role in the movie but the sense of humour bounds with certain dialogues are vastly related to American culture and sexually explicit content that Sri Lankan spectatorship may not be familiarised with. Thus, it is problematic for a translator to utilise the content appropriately. Hence, if advanced with the above complications, the outcome would be unproductive. This results in a loss; partial or complete of the source film's message.Item Issues of Subtitling Faced by the Translator and the Audience(Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jayasinghe, S.; Egodage, W.Subtitling is a prevalent method used to translate foreign dialogues of a movie or television program to be usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Viewers are generally well motivated to understand what is shown and said on television and cinema. Subtitled television programs seem to constitute a rich context for foreign language acquisition and it can raise awareness and provide motivation for language learning, in both formal and informal contexts, and consequently contributes to creating an environment that encourages multilingual ism. However, language and culture are closely interrelated. In subtitling, as in all forms of interlingual transfer, this may cause problems in rendering culturespecific or language-specific elements. This research provides a descriptive analysis of the issues of subtitling based on three questions: What are the problematic circumstances faced by children, old viewers and the deaf? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method? Which skills do viewers acquire by the use of this adaptation method? The information was collected by referring to web articles. The responses made to these questions are based on the results of this research on the issues of subtitling. The results listed down by former researches on these issues of subtitling are its fast pace of subtitles as complained by young and old viewers, continuous integration with regards to its limited processing capacity, and the issues related to the part of the screen of which the subtitles are placed. Moreover, further investigations have not been done to figure out the problems encountered by viewers, but this seems likely because they apparently do not grasp to the fullest from the information provided in the subtitles. There would be an increase in the number of co-productions of television programmes and the future introduction of digital television broadcasts with globalisation. Consequently, the use of language adaptation, specifically subtitling, will therefore undoubtedly improve gradually. Abundant opportunities would be provided for those engaged in the field as a result.