Dubbing British Humour and Culture: A Re-reading of Four Weddings and a Funeral
Iperstoria, 2018 In the literature on the translation of humour, much attention is devoted to questions relating to its (un)translatability, especially of audio-visual texts, where the degree of difficulty increases because of their inherent characteristics, such as time
Paola Clara Leotta
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Sport and God are Scotland's obsessions - why doesn't our literature reflect this? [PDF]
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Riach, Alan
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Popular critiques of consultancy and a politics of management learning? [PDF]
, 2009 In this short article, I argue that popular business discourse on the role of management consultancy in the promotion and translation of management ideas is often critical, informed by more or less implicit ethical and political concerns with employee ...
Andrew Sturdy +13 more
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Translating Euphemisms in an Audio-Visual Medium. The Case of Stand-Up Comedy
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2020 The present paper investigates the difficulties in preserving humour in translating euphemisms in a specific, popular comedy genre: stand-up comedy.
Frenţiu Luminiţa
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Who laughs? A moment of laughter in Shortbus [PDF]
, 2008 In his essay On Laughter, first published in France in 1900, Henri Bergson suggested that “our laughter is always the laughter of the group” (2003:5). With this observation in mind, I have to ask: who laughs when we watch a movie?
Yeatman, Bevin
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Review of: Annmarie Drury, Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Hardback. Pp. viii + 293 [PDF]
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Williams, Rhian
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Variaciones traductoras sobre el humor de The School for Scandal
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1993 Focussing on comedic humour, the paper analyses the different strategies that four translators have used to render Sheridan's The School for Scandal into Spanish.
Marta Mateo Martínez-Bartolomé
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Sexism and Jokes: a Case Study [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to analyse how the interviewees reacted to sexist jokes and to compare it to how they reacted to sexist statements, in order to find out if there is a discrepancy between what people perceive as humour and a serious statement ...
Sambati, Giulia
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Why Ganymede Faints and the Duke of York Weeps: Passion Plays in Shakespeare [PDF]
, 2017 This article revisits contemporary critical debates surrounding the presence of cross-dressed boys as women on the early modern stage – in particular the question of whether or to what extent boy-actors could or should be said to represent ‘women’ or ...
Sujata Iyengar
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 In 1964, many decades before multilingual movies have become fashionable, a Polish director, Stanisław Lenartowicz, made a war comedy called “Giuseppe in Warsaw”. It narrates the adventures of an Italian soldier who on his way home from the Russian front
Monika Wozniak
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