"'Dacci un taglio, vuoi?' Anglicisms in dubbed TV series, then and now"

This contribution focuses on the influence of the English language on dubbed Anglo-American TV series through time. By drawing on the Italian dialogues of the first eleven episodes of the musical drama series Fame (1982) and Glee (2009), we have looked for traces of English in Italian dubbing, identifying various types of Anglicisms, i.e., direct and indirect English borrowings. We have detected the direct Anglicisms in the Italian dialogues and verified whether a selection of indirect Anglicisms quoted in the literature on dubbese were actually used in Fame and Glee. The two series have been compared in order to assess whether and how more recent dubbed dialogues are more anglified than older ones. The preliminary results of this investigation seem to suggest that anglification increases in terms of direct borrowings, but decreases in terms of indirect borrowings.