REVISITING THE TRANSLATION OF PROFANITY IN FILM TEXT

Abstract

The article deals with the current problem of the translation of profanity in film text. The article reveals notions of film translation and audio-visual translation. The focus of the work is made on preserving the communicative-pragmatic effect, as well as on the need to integrate verbal and non-verbal means when translating films. Special attention is paid to the notion of the norm, especially in the context of the translation of connotative words. The article reveals the term vulgarism and describes the differences of indecent and obscene linguistic forms. On the example of TV series Deadwood and its two translations into Russian, a comparative analysis of the translation of obscene words was carried out. Thus, it is concluded that the preservation of non-literary and obscene words in the translation of the film text is acceptable, and even sometimes necessary to preserve the emotionally expressive potential of the original.