French Film Titles with Anthroponyms: Translation Issues
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-1-258-267
Abstract
The research objective was to analyze, classify, and describe the ways of translation of French film titles that contain anthroponyms. Proper names (surnames, nicknames, or pseudonyms) are used to add additional characteristics to the personage or to express some cultural information. The principles of translation of French anthroponyms into Russian include etymological transposition, practical transcription, morphographic method, and transliteration. The anthroponyms do not correspond semantically in different languages. Therefore, they cannot be considered identical equivalents. When translated from French into Russian, anthroponym-containing film titles often lose their stylistic and artistic value, associations, or puns. As a rule, such titles are transformed using reduction, substitution, or addition of some language elements. The transformation serves to correct a seemingly unattractive title, to link the title to the topic and genre, or to achieve commercial success. Titles with pseudonyms and nicknames of French celebrities always undergo some kind of transformation. Sometimes, translators change the title completely or borrow some elements from commercially successful films to attract the attention of the potential audience. The research results can be applied to train specialists of cinema and media industry and teach them French, as well as to develop universal rules of cinema translation.
About the Author
A. N. Tkacheva
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television
Russian Federation
St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
St. Petersburg
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Tkacheva A.N. French Film Titles with Anthroponyms: Translation Issues. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2020;22(1):258-267. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-1-258-267
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