A Stranger in the Saloon: Lexical Disruption in the English Translation for Euro-Westerns Dubbing

Within the current context of a surge foreign audiovisual content dubbed into English, purpose this article is to analyze how, half century earlier, dubbese developed in translation Euro-Westerns resulting disruption established lexis American Westerns. In order root phenomenon, corpus fifteen Westerns and their translations for dubbing Spanish was compiled understand how distinctive genre between 1940s 60s. Then, another parallel from 60s 70s with scripts English collected explore whether artificially created had any linguistic effect by means its upon canonical Finally, comparable derived two previous corpora analyzed. The results show that several lexical elements used were replaced terms never original due influence scriptwriters. Thus, can be found both cultural contexts. At first it and, eventually, lesser degree, Euro-Westerns.