La subtitulación como proceso de adaptación lingüístico-pragmática: una visión comparativa italiano-español

This article investigates, from a technical, linguistic and strategic point of view, the process of subtitling from Italian into Spanish, conceived as a pragmatic adaptation process. A panoramic analysis is presented based on the Spanish subtitles of the Italian film L’incredibile storia dell’Isola delle Rose (The Incredible Story of Rose Island, 2020) distributed by Netflix. It will be interesting to observe what mechanisms are activated and what operations are carried out in the interlinguistic transposition and what consequences are produced in the translatological field. Numerous changes have been made at different levels (lexical, morphosyntactic, stylistic) in the transposition from Italian into Spanish, in order to maintain the meaning of the original audiovisual product. Subtitling is a form of audiovisual translation that inevitably calls for a process of pragmatic adaptation, especially when working with languages that are historically related.