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Title Voicing and Silencing in Translation: A Study of the Urdu Dubbing of the English Documentary-Home

Author(s) Bakhtawar Rubab

Abstract The study focuses on the instances/elements of “silencing” and “voicing” in the documentary “Home”, dubbed in Urdu as “Humara Ghar”. Silencing and voicing are generally common in every act of translation, the translators varyingly seek to suppress certain elements and voice other entities to bring about a narrative, coherence and verbal fluency in target texts. The research uses a tailored model, which takes insights from Antoine Berman’s deforming tendencies, Venuti’s notion of domestication and Vermeer’s (1996) notion of skopos theory. In this model, “silencing” is premised upon the ideas of Berman and Venuti’s ideas; whereas, “voicing” is premised on Vermeer’s(1996) notions of a skopos theory. As skopos theory is taken from the functionalist criterion of translation, the researcher has taken a functional view of voicing here in this research. The researcher highlights the instances of silencing, linking to the semantics and the syntax of a source text, which refers to the purpose of the translation. It has five principles that are used to evaluate the voicing in the target text. Most of the silencings are deformations, which are caused by the techniques for domestication are categorized as inclusions, exclusions, rationalizations, etc. In the evaluation of the translation, skopos serves an important role as a communicative pivot of a source text. The instances fulfilling the principles of skopos theory refer to voicing, while the excerpts from the target text lacking the skopos refer to silencing of an original text. The researcher targets the close textual analysis in an interlingual manner. The presented evidence demonstrates that there are cultural and linguistic precisions. In the selected instances, dubbing turns out to be considerably deformed and domesticated, the argument demonstrates the incidents of mistranslation, and the research concludes on the perspective of further inquiry in the field of Audio-Visual Translation.

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Publication Date 2027-01-22

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