JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 10, No 2 (2026): September

Subtitling Strategies of Interrogative Sentences in A Film Entitled Beauty and the Beast

Sherania Rahmah Salsabila (Universitas Gunadarma, Depok, Jawa Barat)
Devi Hellystia (Universitas Gunadarma, Depok, Jawa Barat)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Sep 2026

Abstract

This research aims to identify the subtitling strategies and analyze the strategies which are frequently occur in the interrogative sentences of the Beauty and the Beast film. This research was descriptive qualitative. The data in this research were dialogue or utterances in the original and Indonesian subtitles of the film. This research uses the strategy of subtitling theory by Gottlieb, 1992 to analyze the subtitles in the film. The results showed that there were 8 strategies applied to translate interrogative sentences. They have transfer with 72 data, followed by deletion with 31 data, paraphrase with 21 data, imitation with 15 data, expansion with 14 data, transcription with 4 data, condensation and decimation with 2 data. There are no dislocation and resignation strategy data found. The most used subtitling strategy is transfer with 71 data, where the translator translates the dialogue completely and there is no change in the form of subtitles in this film.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching that published by the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Batanghari University. JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching aims at reporting high-quality empirical and original research contributions for the benefit ...