Yifei Mou

To swear or not to swear: a quantitative study of swearword translation in Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy

Generating data from 1,130 swearword instances from Dave Chappelle’s eight original English Netflix specials and their official Chinese subtitles, this study adopts a quantitative approach to examine shifts in perceived offensiveness after swearwords were translated, the employme...