Humorous elements and translation in animated feature films: DreamWorks (2001-2012)

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Published: Feb 9, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2017.9.10
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humour, dubbing, intertextuality, humorous elements, animation

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Rebeca Cristina López González
Universidade de Vigo
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9358-7562

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This paper will present some of the results stemming from the thesis La alusión como fuente de creación de humor y su traducción: análisis del cine de animación de DreamWorks (2001-2012) (López González 2015). This study had as its main objective the analysis of intertextual humour in fourteen DreamWorks animated feature films to reveal which are the humorous elements (Martínez Sierra 2008) used in the creation of humour. A definition of intertextual humour will be provided as well as details related to how Martinez Sierra’s classification of humorous elements was applied to the study of animation. The results obtained will show how humour can be triggered for audiences of all ages from the original version films. In order to reach the Spanish target audience these films were dubbed and subtitled into Spanish. Here, attention will be paid to the dubbing process and three examples of how humour has been translated within some of the categories described by Martínez Sierra will be commented on.

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López González, R. C. (2018). Humorous elements and translation in animated feature films: DreamWorks (2001-2012). MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (9), 279–305. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2017.9.10
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Author Biography

Rebeca Cristina López González, Universidade de Vigo

Rebeca Cristina López González is currently a full-time Research Lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain (Translation and Linguistics Department). Her education and working experience includes a B.A. in Translation and Interpreting granted by the University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. She is a certified Legal Translator since 2003, and obtained a B.A. in Education as well as a Master’s Degree in Secondary Compulsory Education, O and A-level, Vocational School and Teaching Foreign Languages in 2004. She has recently obtained her PhD in Translation (2015). Her fields of interest are, among others, the translation and research of Audiovisual Translation, the translation of Literature and Folklore, Children’s Literature and cultural aspects regarding Translation.

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