On the Translation of Subtitles from the Perspective of Cultural Dimensions

Abstract—Culture is an extensive concept to people in every country. We can hardly define it exactly or accurately. Though many scholars have been discussed about western culture, Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck’s cultural-dimension is one of the commonly used theories when people analyze western culture. In this paper, the author will try to analyze it based on the case study of Desperate Housewives, an American television comedy-drama series with eight seasons and portrayed every aspects of life under the western culture. This paper will choose some typical clips of it to analyze and try to be helpful for communications with western people. Index Terms—western culture, cultural-dimensions