3.5.6 Dislocation
Sometimes the process of translation will need to focus more on conveying the effect of an expression rather than its content,such as when a song or poem is delivered in a film.To address situations of this kind,Gottlieb proposes the strategy of dislocation to make the translation reads more rhyme.However,this may require the translator to possess a significant grasp of the target language as well as be knowledgeable about its culture and literature.According to Gottlieb,when meet the translation to the lyrics of a song,poem or nursery rhyme,the subtitler uses dislocation between the two languages in order to emphasize the effects of expression like repetition,stress and the change of intonation.The song’s lyrics in Chinese,for example,have a new rhythm and feature repetitions of Chinese expression.The target audience may feel that the lyric sounds more familiar to their way of expression.In the sample film,there are two instances of subtitles that are suitable for translation using this strategy.The total number of related subtitles is 28 out of 930.
The first instance is a song sung by the protagonist,Gru:
For this song,the subtitler uses dislocation between the two languages in order to emphasize the effect of expression.The song’s lyrics in Chinese have a new rhythm and feature repetitions of Chinese expression.The target audience may feel that the lyric sounds more familiar to their way of expression.(https://www.daowen.com)
The other instance concerns the reading of a bedtime story:
Given that it is a bedtime story，for which the originally intended listeners would be young children，the translator adopts repetitious expression in most of the subtitles at this point in order to mirror a Chinese mother’s way of speaking to their children which in turn best matches the tone of the original expression.This repetitive mode of expression not only replaces the rhyme in the original English but also creates a rhyme in the Chinese subtitles； examples include，“刷毛毛”，“刷刷好”，“睡觉觉”.Using the strategy of dislocation helps the translator to suggest a childlike idiom in their translation.