THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ETHNOCENTRISM IN MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING MOVIE by Riana Permatasari

“…This study analyzes the negative effects of ethnocentrism in My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie by Joel Zwick. The data were in the form of dialogues and monologues collected by watching the movie, reading the script, identifying the data based on the research problem, and classifying the data.. …”
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Reconstructing, Reinterpreting, and Renarrating Code-switching in the Italian Dubbed Version of British and American Multilingual Films by Silvia Monti

“…Starting from these assumptions, this paper aims at looking contrastively at the translation strategies of the different types of code-switching to be observed in the Italian dubbed versions of such British and American intercultural films as Bend it Like Beckham (Chadha, 2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Zwick, 2002), Real Women Have Curves (Cardoso, 2003), Ae Fond Kiss (Loach, 2004), Spanglish (Brooks, 2004), Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008), My Life in Ruins (Petrie, 2009), where the clash of cultures is mostly emphasized by the characters' linguistic choices. …”
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