Chapter 10: Translating Humour: The Dubbing of Bridget Jones’s Diary into Spanish

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Chapter 1: Introduction – Audiovisual Translation: An Overview of its Potential 1
6. Part 1: Crossing Cultural Borders
7. Chapter 2 Subtitling Against the Current: Danish Concepts, English Minds 21
8. 3: Connecting Cultures: Cultural Transfer in Subtitling and Dubbing 44
9. Chapter 4: The Codifi cation of Nonverbal Information in Subtitled Texts 58
10. Chapter 5: Translating Proper Names into Spanish: The Case of Forrest Gump 70
11. Chapter 6: Frenching the Feature Film Twice: Or le synchronien au débat 83
12. Chapter 7: Subtitling the Italian South 99
13. Chapter 8: Main Challenges in the Translation of Documentaries 109
14. Part 2: Juggling with Humour
15. Chapter 9: Strategies for the Dubbing of Puns with One Visual Semantic Layer 123
16. Chapter 10: Translating Humour: The Dubbing of Bridget Jones’s Diary into Spanish 133
17. Chapter 11: Dubbing The Simpsons in Spain: A Case Study 142
18. Chapter 12: The Translation of Audiovisual Humour in Just a Few Words 158
19. Chapter 13: Gender Portrayal in Dubbed and Subtitled Comedies 176
20. Part 3: Dealing with Linguistic Variation
21. Chapter 14: Dubbing English into Italian: A Closer Look at the Translation of Spoken Language 197
22. Chapter 15: The Translation of Swearing in the Dubbing of the Film South Park into Spanish 210
23. Chapter 16: The Translation of Compliments in Subtitles 226
24. Chapter 17: Greek Soldiers on the Screen: Politeness, Fluency and Audience Design in Subtitling 239
25. References 251
26. Index 265