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This article analyzes some typical elements of spontaneous colloquial oral discourse in a corpus formed by two episodes of own production –one of «Plats Bruts» and one of Jet Lag– and two dubbed episodes –an episode of «Normal, Ohio» and one of «Coupling». After a brief summary of the characteristics of language in television series, the first part of the study focuses on identifying morphological, syntactic and lexical aspects characteristic of spontaneous colloquial discourse in the broadcasted version of these episodes, following the features identified by Payrató (1996). In the second part, the differences between the written script given to the actors and the broadcasted version are analysed, and it is assessed if the improvisations have increased the spontaneity of these planned texts. The article concludes with some reflections about the differences and resemblances of the model of language of the own production and the foreign production.

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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.