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This paper is an analysis of the stylistic function of phraseology in three contemporary novels, originally written in English —Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan; The Road, by Cormac McCarthy; and Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie—, and their corresponding translations into Catalan —Amor perdurable, La carretera and Els fills de la mitjanit. Taking into account some theoretical reflections on phraseology and translation, and by comparing the original novels and their translations, in this article we analyze some examples of phraseological units (PUs) that play a significant stylistic role and we also examine the techniques used by professional translators when faced with this sort of PUs.

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Abstract: This article deals with the models of colloquial translation into Catalan in the case of the dubbed version (1997), the subtitled version (1997) and the translated script (1998) of Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997). At the core of the article lies the analysis and the comparison of the phonetics, the morphology, the syntax and the lexicon of each Catalan translation, which is contextualized within the linguistic and translation models current at the time. The conclusion is that the three translations make use of different colloquial language models. The translated script constitutes a disruptive model, especially regarding phonetic representation and the Spanish lexicon deployed. The dubbed version follows TV3’s translation and dubbing criteria: on the one hand, its syntax is relatively colloquial (less colloquial than that of the subtitled version, but not so much as the translated script); on the other hand, its morphology is standard and under-exploits the colloquial resources of the target language. The subtitled version is more colloquial than the dubbed one, especially as far as the lexicon is concerned, using far fewer Hispanicisms than the translated script.Key words: literary translation, audio-visual translation, dubbing, subtitling, colloquial Catalan, colloquial translation models, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown.