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“Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh” (MWW, 3.1.89): Transposing Shakespeare’s ‘Favourite’ Foreign Accents into French

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Lacroix M.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

2017

vol. 16

issue 31

61-74

The Merry Wives of Windsor has long been compared to a great babel of languages. The play contains a smattering of Spanish, Italian and Dutch and even a whole scene dedicated to the mistranslation of Latin. A large part of the play’s humour also heavily relies on the foreign accents of two characters: the French Doctor Caius and the Welsh parson Sir Hugh Evans. If Christopher Luscombe’s 2008/2010 production of The Merry Wives at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London bears testimony to the success of cross-language and accent-based comedy as a source of laughter on today’s English stage, it seems rather implausible, at first sight, that French translations, adaptations and stagings of these accents and linguistic idiosyncrasies should be greeted with the same degree of hilarity. Indeed, how should the Welsh and French accents, both representing real stumbling blocks for French-speaking translators of the play, be transposed into French? What translation strategies can the latter devise? And to what extent can some of those strategies be said to be politically correct? Focusing on Shakespeare’s ‘favorite’ (predominant) accents and the significance and impact of such linguistic comedy, I shall examine the question of their problematic translation through the analysis and comparison of a number of translations and stagings of The Merry Wives of Windsor into French.

Est-ce que la polonité est (in)traduisible ? Quelques réflexions sur la réception des éléments culturels dans le film Wesele par un Français

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Kochanowska U.

Białostockie Archiwum Językowe

2015

vol. 15

L’article est consacré au transfert des éléments culturels dans la traduction audiovisuelle du film d’Andrzej Wajda Wesele et leur compréhension par un récepteur français. L’analyse de la traduction du film, profondément enraciné dans la culture polonaise, nous a permis de classer les éléments culturels selon quelques voies possibles du transfert. Nous essayons également de préciser si le récepteur français est capable de comprendre les références culturelles dans des scènes analysées. Cela nous mène à la constatation que la majorité des élements culturels dans le film reste incompréhensible pour un spectateur français. En effet, bien que le code non-verbal (image, musique) contribue à l’explication et à la compréhension du code verbal (sous-titres), cette fonction n’est pas remplie dans le cas du film Wesele. Par conséquent, le récepteur français ne comprendra pas plusieurs allusions, surtout celles dans les scènes privées de dialogues. Cela résulte aussi du fait qu’il n’a pas eu de possibilité de connaître la culture polonaise. Cependant, l’oeuvre de Wajda transmet un certain savoir sur la polonité ce qui constitue la valeur du film.

The article is devoted to the interpretation of cultural elements in the audiovisual translation of Wesele by Andrzej Wajda and their reception by the French viewer. The choice of the film was dictated by its strong rootedness in Polish culture. The analysis of the film translation makes it possible to group the cultural elements into several categories. In each case, we try to clarify how the analyzed scenes are understood by the French viewer. This analysis leads to the conclusion, that most of the cultural elements in Wesele remain incomprehensible. Although the role of non-verbal code (picture, music) is to explain and to complete verbal code (subtitles), this function is not completely fulfilled in the case of Wajda’s movie. Many scenes, especially images lacking words, do not induce any cultural associations amongst French viewers, which may be caused by their lack of contact with Polish culture. The film may, however, provide a lot of information about Polishness, which is its advantage.

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“Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh” (MWW, 3.1.89): Transposing Shakespeare’s ‘Favourite’ Foreign Accents into French

Est-ce que la polonité est (in)traduisible ? Quelques réflexions sur la réception des éléments culturels dans le film Wesele par un Français