New Moon: approach to the audiovisual translation of the language of teens

The juvenile or teenage talk changes quickly and the audiovisual products are a good format that shows these characteristics. Every teenager from every language has different tools to express him/herself, even those languages sharing the same territory. Taking that into account, this article analyses the great teenager phenomenon of the last years: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Weitz 2009). The first part of the article deals with the most theoretical aspects of the juvenile language and its translation. The second part tackles the analysis of the existent translations of the film from the English original version into Spanish, Catalan and Basque. This analysis covers the translations for the dubbing and subtitling. In this way, some conclusions are made on the translation's trends of this type of languages sharing the same territory, as it is the case of the Catalan and the Spanish or the Basque and the Spanish.