Author(s)

Fangying Gong

Corresponding Author

Fangying Gong

ABSTRACT

With the increase of cultural exchanges between China and the west, an increasing number of English TV series have been introduced into China in recent years. Therefore, subtitle translation, as the main approach to understand plots for the most audience, has attracted more and more attention. However, nonstandard subtitles which are translated by unofficial fansub groups raise some problems. This paper, from the perspective of Skopos theory, taking TV series Why Women Kill as an example, makes a critical analysis of unofficial translated subtitles, and puts forward some causes and improvement suggestions on its defects, which can be applied in other fansub groups’ translation.

KEYWORDS

Subtitle translation, Skopos theory, TV series, fansub groups’ translation