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Routledge
306 Pages
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Routledge
306 Pages
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Routledge
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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,... Read more
Introduction: (Re-)Constructing Humour: Meanings and Means - Jeroen VandaeleTranslation and Humour: An Approach Based on the General Theory of Verbal Humour - Salvatore Attardo A Cognitive Approach to Literary Humour Devices Translating Raymond Chandler - Eleni AntonopoulouOn Translating Queneau's Exercices de style into Italian, Umberto Eco - Translated by Mary Louise WardleSubtitling Irony: Blackadder in Dutch- Katja Pelsmaekers and Fred Van Besien'Funny Fictions': Francoist Translation Censorship of Two Billy Wilder Films - Jeroen VandaeleA Great Feast of Languages: Shakespeare's Multilingual Comedy in King Henry V and the Translator - Dirk DelabastitaPerformance and Translation in the Arabic Metalinguistic Joke- Ibrahim MuhawiPlaying the Double Agent: An Indian Story in English- Christi Ann MerrillHumour in Simultaneous Conference Interpreting- Maria Pavlicek, and Franz Pöchhacker Revisiting the ClassicsBook Reviews
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Jeroen Vandaele
