Translation variability of occasional vocabulary in Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction films

occasional vocabulary is a subject of study for many researchers in the areas of linguistics and translation studies. The article examines the problem of transferring occasional lexical units represented in the texts of the science fiction films “Blade Runner 2049” and “Dune: Part One” into the Russian language. As a result of interpretative analysis of the original film texts, as well as a comprehensive comparative analysis of their Russian translations, the most effective translation means used for the adequate translation of occasional words are identified. This task requires making independent and original translation decisions. Their high variability is related to the phenomenon of translation multiplicity, which theoretically accounts for the existence of an unlimited number of translations of a single text. The novelty of the research lies in the study of the transfer of occasionalisms from the perspective of a previously unexplored context – the established corpus of different versions of translations of the aforementioned films.

audiovisual translation, variation, dubbed translation, offscreen translation, subtitles, translation mean, occasionalism, science fiction