Gollum’s linguistic precious. The use of idiolect in the depiction of the identity of fictional characters and its translation for dubbing

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Published: Oct 15, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.12
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idiolect, translation, bubbing, language variation, Gollum

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Guillermo Parra López
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-3545
Eduard Bartoll Teixidor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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The aim of this article is to reflect on the nature of the idiolect and its treatment in translation through the language of Gollum, one of the most notable characters in The Lord of the Rings. Idiolects have historically received little attention from both linguistics and translation studies, probably because of their individual and asystematic essence. Nevertheless, it is important to know the implications of this phenomenon for translation, since it is a fundamental element in the depiction of characters’ identity in fiction works. This study is devoted to analyze a selection of samples from Gollum’s idiolect obtained from the film adaptation of the Trilogy and to observe how his linguistic idiosyncrasies have been dealt with in the Spanish dubbed version.

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Parra López, G., & Bartoll Teixidor, E. (2019). Gollum’s linguistic precious. The use of idiolect in the depiction of the identity of fictional characters and its translation for dubbing. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, 343–370. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.12
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2019: Special Issue 4. Multilingualism and representation of identities in audiovisual texts
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Guillermo Parra López, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Guillermo Parra López is an audiovisual translator and teaching assistant in the Translation and Language Sciences Department of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), in Barcelona. He teaches Translation and the Media and Fundamentals of Translation, for which he received the UPF Social Council Award for Teaching Quality in 2015. Guillermo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Translation and Interpreting and a Master’s Degree in Translation Studies and is currently doing a PhD on the translation of disorderly speech under the supervision of Patrick Zabalbeascoa and Eduard Bartoll. He is the author of Disorderly speech and its translation: fear and loathing among letters (Parra López, 2016) and Translating drug-induced language variation in cinema (Parra López, in press).

Eduard Bartoll Teixidor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Dr Eduard Bartoll is an audiovisual translator, mainly from English and German into Catalan and Spanish. He has subtitled more than 500 films and he translates theatre plays too, often for surtitles. He has worked at the university Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, where he was a lecturer in translation from German and English into Catalan and Spanish. He has also worked at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and at other universities, like Leipzig Universität, Heidelberg Universität, Universidade Federal do Ceará, etc. In 2012 published a book in Catalan about Subtitling and in 2015 he published another book in Spanish about audiovisual translation. He has written several articles on audiovisual translation, especially on subtitling, and has attended many conferences, such as Media for All (1st, 2nd and 3rd), Languages and the Media (5th and 6th), etc.

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