24 Oct 2016 2:00am - 4:00am Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building

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Dr Carol O’Sullivan (Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Bristol)

Moderator: Monica Boria (Language Centre, Cambridge)

 

Humour is a universal human trait found across all cultures and throughout history, and one deeply embedded in them. Translating the combination of verbal humour with referential humour, for example, has often been likened to translating poetry: impossible. The imperative of the perlocutionary effect (amusement) complicates matters further, not to mention the fact that, to an extent, a sense of humour is innate and cannot really be learnt. However, the increasing global demand for the translation, or adaptation, of humour in a variety of texts and contexts (literary, film and television, live interpretation, etc.), has produced a growing body of research by scholars and translators from many countries and academic disciplines (Delabastita, 1996, 1997; Chiaro, 1992, 2005, 2010; Attardo, 2002; Vandaele, 2002; Zabalbeascoa, 1996, 2005, 2016). How does humour in film or television travel? How is subtitled/dubbed humour received? These are some of the questions we will be addressing.

In the workshop we propose to introduce the audience to the key principles and practice of audiovisual translation of humour (with an activity on dubbing and/or subtitling of a film or TV comedy), including the notoriously difficult task of translating puns and jokes.

 

Open to all.  No registration required
Part of Cambridge Conversations in Translation Research Group Seminar Series

Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk

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