Subtitling African American English into French: Can We Do The Right Thing?

In this book, I look at the way African American English is subtitled into French, and with what consequences for the films and their narratives.

Drawing on the fields of Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics and Film Studies, this book analyses the French subtitling of African American English in a corpus of films from the United States. It also explores the implications of resorting to the use of non-standard forms in the French subtitles to portray linguistic variation, paying special attention to the reception of the films as well as the consequences of juxtaposing two linguistic varieties on screen.

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