How Does Neapolitan Organised Crime Swear in English and Spanish?

Authors : Heather Adams, Matias Vedaschi Ozzola

Pages : 521-541

Doi:10.29110/soylemdergi.1600869

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Publication Date : 2025-03-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The exponential boom in audiovisual content creation this century has led to a significant increase in the translation of audiovisual texts, and, subsequently, in the study of these translations from a wide range of perspectives. Likewise, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to swearing as a social phenomenon, its representation in different types of texts and the ways in which this type of language is then rendered in translation. The last twenty years have seen an upsurge in the research carried out on the translation of swearing in films and series, typically in the rendering in other languages of expressions considered vulgar, rude, foul, blasphemous or taboo that were originally uttered by fictional characters in English. More recently, with the emergence and boom of streaming platforms, an increased amount of audiovisual fiction has been translated into English. In this context, this study describes and analyses the swear words used in the original Neapolitan dialect of the Italian series Gomorrah, based on the type of swearing used, the systems of reference alluded to by taboo expressions and the functions said instances of swearing fulfill. In a second step, it also presents translations of 3 these elements in the English (subtitled) version and the Spanish (dubbed) version, in the light of the constraints involved in each of the modalities of audiovisual translation and the translation techniques used, together with an indication as to whether or not the strength of the language used has been intensified, preserved or attenuated in each translated version.
Keywords : Görsel-işitsel çeviri, Gomorrah, tabu ifadeler, küfrün işlevleri, çeviri teknikleri, İngilizceye çeviri, yoğunlaştırma, zayıflatma.