Informality and Vulgarization within the Dubbing of the Animated Series of Arcane

Abstract

[eng] This dissertation aims to identify the changes of register present in the neutral Spanish dubbing of the animated series known as Arcane (2021), an audiovisual production belonging to the video games company, Riot Games. This audiovisual material, chosen due to its novelty within the television industry thanks to the renowned Netflix streaming platform, will be examined thoroughly to comprehend both, the translator’s task and the result of the dubbing process. The analysis consists in the selection of various vulgar register-related instances and the study of the translation techniques applied to each case. Once the problems have been discovered, it will be examined the nature of those issues and the solutions provided by the Arcane dubbing agents, as well as the solutions we propound for each case. Based on the results, it will be possible to define Arcane’s quality, intelligibility, fidelity with the original English version, its linguistic and cultural adaptation to the target language, as well as the translation strategies based on the exhaustive study made on the series. Finally, we will know if the dubbing of Runeterra’s universe lives up to its success.