Tratamiento de la «polifonía» en el doblaje: la presencia de lenguas extranjeras y sus acentos

Abstract

The constraints imposed by audiovisual translation in the modality of dubbing include the presence of foreign languages in the original version, the so-called «third-languages», as well as the use of real or fake accents to depict characters. This situation, which we refer to as a «polyphonic problem» allows us to observe how different cultures compare their strengths by promoting or rejecting the use of foreign languages and accents. In order to analyze this interesting process, we have selected a film in which we can describe the weight of German versus American English in the original version and the way in which this representation effect has been addressed in the version dubbed into Spanish. The selected film is The Book Thief (2013).