When humour and culture clash: subtitling in Spanish affai

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Published: Feb 9, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2017.9.9
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humour, culture, traductibility, Spanish affair, subtitling

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Pilar González Vera
Universidad de Zaragoza
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4919-8113

Abstract

The translation of humour presents one of the most difficult and attractive challenges for translators. This is, mainly, due to the diversity of elements that can converge with a single purpose: to obtain a smile from the audience. Regarding audiovisual products, despite the concurrence of multiple codes, which may, in the first instance, be of assistance, this is not always the case when ideological and cultural elements come into play. This work aims to study the translation of humour in the film Spanish affair (Martínez Lázaro 2014), a comedy based on the culture clash between communities. From the analysis of the subtitling, we intend to contribute to the debate about traductibility of humour, paying special attention to those cases in which the cultural component is determining or, at least, extremely meaningful.

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González Vera, P. (2018). When humour and culture clash: subtitling in Spanish affai. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (9), 249–277. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2017.9.9
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Author Biography

Pilar González Vera, Universidad de Zaragoza

Pilar González-Vera completed her PhD in English Philology at the University of Zaragoza. She is a lecturer of audiovisual translation and technical English at the University of Zaragoza. She is a researcher in the group Swift and has participated in innovative teaching networks like “Icap-Intralingual captioning for writing and vocabulary enhancement within an integrated skills framework” and “Subtitle for the deaf and hard of hearing to improve listening and writing skills in foreign language education”. Her research interests include audiovisual translation and accessibility; the translation of humour and cultural references; and the use of new technologies and audiovisual translation in SLA. She has published in various journals, including Ikala, JoSTrans, Language Value, Miscelanea, and RILA. She is also in the editorial board of the Journal for English Linguistics and in the scientific board of Verbeia.

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