Agencia y sujeto colectivo en el doblaje latino de Los Simpsons: creando un español para Springfield

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the dubbing strategies of lexical and syntagmatic units that carry socially recognizable cultural meanings -or culturemes-in the Latin Spanish versions of The Simpsons. We argue that these strategies are built up collectively by dubbing teams, in a particularly productive way during seasons 2 to 15. To test this hypothesis, we gathered a corpus of arbitrarily selected episodes between seasons 1 and 23, and performed a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the culturemes observed in the dubbing process. Results show the emergence of a distinctive speech form compared to other Latino and neutral dubbing styles: Springfield Spanish. This specific voice, a product of the agency distributed among the members of the dubbing team, was lost when it was replaced in 2005, thus showing its singular and situated nature.