President-Elect vs. Kersverse President: Translating Politics in Netflix’s House of Cards

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Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)

Brak, Peter (2019)

President-Elect vs. Kersverse President: Translating Politics in Netflix’s House of Cards

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)

Subtitlers often find themselves choosing between adhering to subtitling constraints and improving the target audience's understanding of the source material. In other words, they make choices between condensation and accessibility. This thesis examines how references to political discourse are translated in Netflix's series House of Cards, from English to Dutch. These references were categorized by using a translation taxonomy (Pedersen, 2005/2011). This categorization process demonstrated how the Official Equivalent translation strategy can be problematic, and a tendency to choose (cultural) accessibility over condensation in general.