Abstract
Our paper is considering some aspects of audiovisual translation, with a certain emphasis on cultural characteristics. The most common means used for text translation are dubbing (post-synchronisation) and subtitling, and the focus of this research lies on the former. It is well-known that foreign films are dubbed in Italian and dialogues in Italian are translated and adapted differently by comparison with the original version. Film translation is a phenomenon made of two different parts: translation and cinema. Actually, it applies its mains techniques for transposing the linguistic unit of a film from the source language to the target one. Therefore, the word “translation” takes into account literary texts but also all kinds of texts (including scripts). We propose to underline the importance and the complexity of dubbing and to consider the particularity of dubbed Italian, with the bias of specific characteristics of Italian adaptations.