Translation and Context in Nigerian Movies: Example of Equivalence Relation in Selected Subtitled Yoruba Movies

Abdulwahid Adebisi ALIY et S. O. O. ABUBAKRE

Numéro 14 – RILE-2 de 2019 (Deuxième numéro 2019) (2019) Page(s) 19 - 34 ISSN 2076-6130

Movie is the most popular form of entertainment in human societies. It has enormous power to inspire and some of its best lines are long-lived after watching it. Due to the present globalization era and information age, the need to translate these movies into a language of wider communication (LWC) such as English language became imperative. This paper studies the equivalence relation between the translated texts and the texts of some Nollywood products specifically Yorùbá movies. It has been observed that most translations in the Yorùbá movies are full of errors and the level e 20 in the films shown in those cinema houses as distribution and exhibition were controlled by foreigners. In the 1950s, cinema visual entertainment was complemented by the Yorùbá travel theatres, the most popular among which were the Agbégijó and Alárìnjó theatre groups featuring artists such as Dúró Ladipọ, Ìshọ̀lá Ògúnmọ́lá, Lérè Pàímọ́ and Oyin Adéjọbi to mention a few. This state of affairs initially hardly changed with the occurrence of independence, in October 1960. However, towards the end of the 1960s and into the 1970s Nigerian components in the films shown at cinemas (especially in Southern Nigeria) increased gradually as Hebert Ogunde, Moses Olaiya and Jab Adu got into the business of film making (guardian news.com). The Need to Translate Movies Produced in Local Languages i

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Abdulwahid Adebisi ALIY et S. O. O. ABUBAKRE. « Translation and Context in Nigerian Movies: Example of Equivalence Relation in Selected Subtitled Yoruba Movies ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 14, 2019, p. 19. ISSN 2076-6130.