2024

Representations of masculine speech in the Japanese dub of the movie Call Me by Your Name: virtual spaces and bodies of otherness

Representations of masculine speech in the Japanese dub of the movie Call Me by Your Name: virtual spaces and bodies of otherness

Novità editoriale - Agosto 2024

Representations of masculine speech in the Japanese dub of the movie Call Me by Your Name: virtual spaces and bodies of otherness.

Building upon audiovisual translation and recent Japanese sociolinguistic studies, this article intertwins the analysis of the Japanese male markers in dubbed texts with the phonetic analysis of the original voices and Japanese voice actors highlighting the exploitation of the speakers’ bodies and revealing a clear polarization between hard and soft masculinity mediated by a set of metapragmatic stereotypes that inherit, in turn, a homonormativity vision which is directly borrowed from the imagery of different gender relationships in Japan.