Résumés
Abstract
The present article examines the Spanish dubbing language from the point of view of its naturalness. The premise is that dubbing language is best analyzed by comparing it to the register it imitates, as long as its peculiar features are taken into consideration. This study is divided into two parts: firstly, a description of the features that make dubbing dialogue different from real dialogue, focusing on those arising from the source text; secondly, a comparative analysis of dubbed and real dialogue. In the latter, a corpus of spontaneous conversations will be used as a yardstick for natural dialogue and the main strategies used in colloquial conversation will provide the linguistic units to be analyzed: intensifiers and discourse markers. The main unidiomatic features detected are the use of anglicisms, especially at the pragmatic level, and a certain shift in tone that may cause a variation in the relation among the participants in the dubbed text. Finally, the notion of suspension of linguistic disbelief is put forward as a possible explanation for the perpetuation of unnatural features in dubbing language.
Mots-Clés/Keywords:
- discourse markers,
- dubbese,
- intensifiers,
- naturalness,
- Spanish dubbing language,
- suspension of linguistic disbelief
Résumé
Le présent article examine l’idiomaticité de la langue espagnole utilisée dans le doublage. Il montre qu’il est préférable d’analyser la langue de doublage en la comparant au registre qu’elle imite, du moment que ses caractéristiques particulières sont prises en compte. L’étude est divisée en deux parties. La première donne une description des caractéristiques qui rendent le dialogue doublé différent du dialogue réel. Cette description est axée sur les traits spécifiques du texte de départ. La seconde est une analyse comparée du dialogue doublé et du dialogue réel. Dans cette partie, un corpus de conversations spontanées sert de point de référence pour un dialogue considéré comme naturel. Les principales stratégies utilisées dans la conversation courante déterminent les unités linguistiques à analyser : les marqueurs de degré et autres marqueurs du discours. Les caractéristiques de non-idiomaticité identifiées sont l’utilisation d’anglicismes, particulièrement sur le plan pragmatique, et un changement de ton, susceptible de causer une variation dans la relation entre les participants dans le texte résultant du doublage. Enfin, la notion de « suspension d’incrédulité linguistique » est proposée comme explication possible de la perpétuation du manque de naturel dans la langue utilisée pour le doublage.
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