Il 'fansubbing' nell’aula di traduzione: come apprendere a tradurre l'intertestualità degli errori altrui. Il caso della serie 'Supernatural'

摘要

The aim of this paper is to investigate how Italian and Spanish fansubbers cope with thetranslation of intertextuality in order to exploit others’ experience in translation teachingpractice. Examples of solutions employed by amateur translators were providedfrom the serial 'Supernatural', where visual and verbal references to US culture arelargely employed.Studying a small corpus of solutions, especially the wrong ones – i.e. those notconveying both reference and function of quotes – we understood that the inadequatelevel of encyclopaedic knowledge mastered by the young amateur translators may be thecause of erroneous translations. In fact, the procedures they employ to solve intertextualchallenges show that most of the fansubbers are not able to recognise the referencebehind the quotations, or if they do it, hardly can they recover the proper source or itscodified translation into the target culture. As a result, sometimes textual coherence isaffected, leading spectators to a general incomprehension of the use of intertextuality.