Synchronization in English-to-Persian dubbing : assessing the dubbing quality of the film The Green Mile

Vol.51,No.2(2025)

Saleh Sanatifar Parvin Javedsokhan

https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2025-2-4

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.83802

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Abstract
The success of dubbed films depends on the quality of synchronization to a great extent. Failure to meet synchronization may lead target viewers to dislike or reject the dubbed product for being unnatural or unfaithful. Thus, dubbing translators often face the challenge of achieving synchronization. This becomes even more challenging in audiovisual translation, particularly when the source and target languages are categorically and structurally different. A case in point is the English and Persian language pair. Using Chaume's (2008) synchronization framework and Chaume's (2007) dubbing quality standards, this article intends to assess the synchronization quality and techniques used by the dubbing translators to tackle this challenge in the Persian dubs of the English-language film The Green Mile. The findings indicated that the selected film had acceptable synchronization, and the dubbing translators performed well. The findings further reveal that to achieve lip-sync, the dubbing translators use repetition, word order shift, and substitution techniques more frequently, and to achieve isochrony, they use reduction.

Keywords:
synchronization; film dubbing; lip-sync; isochrony; Persian

Pages:
77–93
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