SUBTITLING STRATEGIES OF THE SONGS TRANSLATION IN THEMOVIE ENTITLED “PITCH PERFECT”

Muh Kholiq, Grace Soraya

Abstract

Subtitling is the process of translating the source language into the target language in
audio-visual. This research aimed to find out the subtitling strategies found in songs
played in a movie entitled Pitch Perfect. This research used a qualitative descriptive
method with a literature study approach. The result of the research showed that there
are 6 strategies found in the subtitling strategies used in the songs of the movie namely
transfer, paraphrase, dislocation, condensation, decimation, and resignat ion. The most
used strategy in this research is transfer strategy with 55.84% of the total data
collected, followed by dislocation strategy with 14.28% of the total data collected,
followed by paraphrase with 10.5% of the total data collected, followed by
condensation with 6.5% of the total data collected, followed by decimation with 2.6%
of the total data collected, and finally, last but not least, resignation with 1.3% of the
total data collected.

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