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Translating Humour (Paperback)
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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.
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