Making room inside the doughnut: European audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages as an opportunity for global language justice

Abstract

Based on Suzanne Romaine's metaphor “making room inside the doughnut”, the practice of audiovisual subtitling in non-hegemonic languages is proposed as a catalyst for cultural diversity and an antidote to the “flattening of cultural-linguistic diversity”. That is why it is urgent to reorient the prevailing audiovisual consumption habits in Europe towards ways of consumption that guarantee the original integrity of the audiovisual work, through non-short-term educational and cultural policies, aimed at understanding European linguistic diversity, not as a series of barriers to overcome, but as opportunities for cultural diversity.