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Editorial: Multilingual Humour in Translation [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has been developing over the last two decades by focusing in particular on new ways of communication.
Margherita Dore
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How humour travels in the new and dynamic mediascape: a case study of a short video platform, Little Red Book, and an online teaching platform, Rain Classroom [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 As a vital part of translation studies, humour has drawn scholarly attention for decades, with classifications that range from Zabalbeascoa’s (The Translator 2(2):235–257, 1996) six types of jokes to Chiaro and Piferi’s (It’s green! It’s cool! It’s Shrek!
Lisi Liang
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Hybrid humour as cultural translation: The example of Beur humour [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 Humour is a phenomenon that is pervasive in the human heritage in all its different ethnic and cultural diversity; however, humorous effects might exceed the mere pleasure or laughter to serve as a strategy of survival.
Merouan Bendi
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Analysis of Humour in Tv Series Friends and Its Translation Into Lithuanian
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017 The present study examines humour in the tenth season of the TV sitcom Friends and its translation from English into Lithuanian. With humour often believed to be culture-specific, humour translation presents a notorious issue in translation practice, as ...
Korostenskienė Julija +1 more
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Translating humour in audiovisual media [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2016 The article investigates humour translation in audiovisual media concentrating on two modes of audiovisual translation: dubbing and subtitling. The corpus consists of humorous scenes collected from two popular American situational comedies, namely ...
Peter Zolczer
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Psychology-Driven Enhancement of Humour Translation
Communications in Computer and Information ScienceHumour translation plays a vital role as a bridge between different cultures, fostering understanding and communication. Although most existing Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of general translation tasks, these models still struggle with humour translation, which is especially reflected through linguistic interference and lacking humour in ...
Yonghua Zhu, Michael J Witbrock
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Subtitling Strategies and Acceptability of Humour in “Modern Family” Season 6 (2014)
J-Lalite, 2023 This research aims to analyse the types of verbal humour, the subtitling strategies, and its acceptability in Modern Family Season 6. The research is conducted by using the theory of verbal humour translation by Raphaelson-West (1989), theory of ...
Rahima Azim +2 more
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Subtitling Arabic humour into English
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 This article examines how humour in Arabic stand-up comedies is translated into English in an audio-visual context. The study uses a case study of Arabic stand-up comedies streamed on Netflix, including Live from Beirut by Adel Karam and Comedians of ...
Hanan Al-Jabri +2 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The paper explores the reception of Aristophanes’ first extant comedy The Acharnians (425 BC) in post-war Greek modern theatre by the two government-sponsored theatre institutions of Greece, namely the National Theatre of Greece (NTG) and the National ...
Vicky Manteli
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Mapping the contours of humour: reflections on recent introductory studies
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 Introductions to fields of studies are almost a sub-genre in their own right, but are often resistant to direct comparison. The essay discusses four recent introductions to humour published by university presses, and what more broadly they may signify ...
Conal Condren
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