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Translating Humour

2016-04-08 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Translating Humour by : Jeroen Vandaele

Download or read book Translating Humour written by Jeroen Vandaele. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text. But humour is not a perlocutionary effect in its own right, nor is laughter. The humour of a text may be as general a characteristic as a serious text's seriousness. Like serious texts, humorous texts have many different purposes and effects. They can be subdivided into specific subgenres, with their own perlocutionary effects, their own types of laughter (or even other reactions). Translation scholars need to be able to distinguish between various kinds of humour (or humorous effect) when comparing source and target texts, especially since the notion of "effect" pops up so frequently in the evaluation of humorous texts and their translations. In this special issue of The Translator, an attempt is made to delineate types of humorous effect, through careful linguistic and cultural analyses of specific examples and/or the introduction of new analytical tools. For a translator, who is both a receiver of the source text and sender of the target text, such analyses and tools may prove useful in grasping and pinning down the perlocutionary effect of a source text and devising strategies for producing comparable effects in the target text. For a translation scholar, who is a receiver of both source and target texts, the contributions in this issue will hopefully provide an analytical framework for the comparison of source and target perlocutionary effects.

Translation, Humour and Literature

2010-11-25 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2010-11-25
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Book Synopsis Translation, Humour and Literature by : Delia Chiaro

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Translating Humour

2016-04-08 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-04-08
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Book Synopsis Translating Humour by : Jeroen Vandaele

Download or read book Translating Humour written by Jeroen Vandaele. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text. But humour is not a perlocutionary effect in its own right, nor is laughter. The humour of a text may be as general a characteristic as a serious text's seriousness. Like serious texts, humorous texts have many different purposes and effects. They can be subdivided into specific subgenres, with their own perlocutionary effects, their own types of laughter (or even other reactions). Translation scholars need to be able to distinguish between various kinds of humour (or humorous effect) when comparing source and target texts, especially since the notion of "effect" pops up so frequently in the evaluation of humorous texts and their translations. In this special issue of The Translator, an attempt is made to delineate types of humorous effect, through careful linguistic and cultural analyses of specific examples and/or the introduction of new analytical tools. For a translator, who is both a receiver of the source text and sender of the target text, such analyses and tools may prove useful in grasping and pinning down the perlocutionary effect of a source text and devising strategies for producing comparable effects in the target text. For a translation scholar, who is a receiver of both source and target texts, the contributions in this issue will hopefully provide an analytical framework for the comparison of source and target perlocutionary effects.

Translating Humour in Audiovisual Texts

2014 Audio-visual materials
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Release : 2014
Genre : Audio-visual materials
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Book Synopsis Translating Humour in Audiovisual Texts by : Gian Luigi De Rosa

Download or read book Translating Humour in Audiovisual Texts written by Gian Luigi De Rosa. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays introduces the reader to the specificities of humour in audiovisual products and presents a series of case studies in audiovisual translation, from films to video-games, exemplifying problems and solutions to audiovisual humour in the dubs and subs in a variety of language combinations.

Difficulties of translating humour: From English into Spanish using the subtitled British comedy sketch show "Little Britain" as a case study

2013-06-01 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Difficulties of translating humour: From English into Spanish using the subtitled British comedy sketch show "Little Britain" as a case study by : Charles Harrison

Download or read book Difficulties of translating humour: From English into Spanish using the subtitled British comedy sketch show "Little Britain" as a case study written by Charles Harrison. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour is a complex concept which tends to build on the ambiguity of language. When converting a humoristic program into a different language, the translator thus faces many challenges. One of these is the translation of cultural aspects of the TL (target language). Since every culture contains its unique form of humour, understanding the humour within a culture and all its cultural elements is essential to producing an adequate translation. The study at hand focuses on the translation of the British comedy-sketch show Little Britain analyzing how it has been converted from its SL (source language), which is English, to its TL, which in this study will be Spanish. It proved to be highly constructive for the purposes of this research as the humour is often very culture-specific and thus difficult to translate. For the benefit of the reader, the first part of this dissertation is going to discuss various theories of humour. Moreover, it will discuss how humour is created in the comedy sketch show Little Britain. As subtitles will be used for the analysis of the case study, limitations and constraints will be discussed as the translator cannot merely focus on the linguistic features and possible problems like she/he would do in any other form of translation. Using Attardo’s theory (1994), the study aims to explore aspects that create difficulties during the translation process, always in relation to humour that is seen in a comedy sketch show. It explores the translation of humour, examining potential problems that translators need to overcome and expands on this by investigating the difficulties that arise when translating culture-specific issues. In addition, as this is an audiovisual translation, potential problems that become relevant in the case study are highlighted. The study highlights the difficulties a translator faces within the process and, where relevant, possible alternative strategies that the translator could have applied in the translation process.

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