Dubbing Dark Humour: A Case Study in Audiovisual Translation

• Authors: Chiara Bucaria
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In an attempt to analyze the ways in which dark humour travels cross-culturally in audiovisual translation, the present study takes into consideration the processes involved in dubbing humour from English into Italian as observed in the English- and Italian-language versions of ten British and American dark comedies from the 1940s to the 2000s. In order to identify some of the main mechanisms of the dark humour genre, the humorous content of the films was analyzed in terms of the elements on which specific scenes are based, mainly the non-verbal and verbal components. In the cases in which verbal elements were involved, i.e. the examples of verbally expressed humour, the analysis was concerned with the translation strategies adopted and with possible effects of alteration of the dark humour content as a result of translation.

Keywords

EN

Dark humour; audiovisual translation; dubbing; potentially disturbing elements; manipulation

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 215-240

Dates

published

2008-01-01

online

2008-12-08

Contributors

author

Chiara Bucaria

• Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna at Forlì

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10016-008-0014-2