“You're Talking Like the Computer in the Movie”. Allusions in Audiovisual Translation

This article explores allusions as specific cultural references, contained either explicitly or implicitly in dramatic dialogues and images of television shows. Moreover, it looks particularly at the problem of their translation, as it has been discussed in Translation Studies and in Audiovisual Translation. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of these elements has been carried out on the basis of a substantial corpus of television programmes selected and categorized by means of a Descriptive Translations Studies paradigm.