An Analysis of Explicatures in English -Arabic Subtitles: The Case of Friends on Netflix.
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https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes.v24i2.625Keywords:
explicatures, explicatures areas, pragmatics, relevance theory, subtitlingAbstract
Abstract
This study examines the presence of explicatures in subtitling, with a specific focus on the prioritization of different areas of explicatures in English-Arabic subtitles of the American sitcom Friends on Netflix. Sperber and Wilson (1986) introduced the concept of explicatures, which pertains to developments made by communicators to the explicit content of their utterances. This study utilizes Relevance Theory (1986) and Huang's (2014) explicature classifications. The study's findings suggest that the investigated subtitles contain all five areas of explicatures. Additionally, the study indicates that the subtitler did not consistently observe all areas of explicatures. Disambiguation was the most commonly observed, whereas saturation was the least frequently observed area.
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