Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Family Guy: Challenges in Dubbing and Subtitling L3 Varieties of Spanish

Multilingualism and multiculturalism are verbally visually recurrent in the sitcom Family Guy (1999-in production) through a combination of main language communication (L1) other languages (L3) source (SL) or text (ST). The use L3 is tantamount to tokenism stereotyping characters, especially those whose recurrence incidental part jokes. This paper compares two versions episode “Road Rhode Island” (American Spanish DVDs) addresses scene analyze linguistic challenges lexical choices dubbing subtitling L1 geographical varieties Spanish: Latin American Peninsular Spanish. In this regard, study focuses on role function translation, techniques represent translation techniques, which used translation. Overall, explores how DVD adds new target (TT) maintain its original dubbing, differences DVD: L3TT omission change meaning ultimately accentuates cultural misrepresentation stereotypes.