Transferring multilingual humour intralingually: the case of “Big Night”

• Authors: Giulia Magazzù
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Multilingual films usually tackle significant social and political issues. Sometimes, these films adopt linguistic diversity to create confusion and to trigger humour, accomplishing a comic effect. Normally, films about migration and diaspora are multilingual, as they want to recreate the linguistic diversity that exists in reality. There are many cases though in which the translator/adapter faces the struggle of translating into his/her own language. In this paper, we will analyse the Italian dubbing of Big Night, to see how the dialogues have been conveyed and especially how verbally expressed humour and stereotypes from the Italian language and culture are transferred intralingually and to what effect.

Keywords

EN

Multilingualism; humour; dubbing; intralingual translation

• Publisher: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
• Journal: The European Journal of Humour Research
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-05-21

Contributors

author

Giulia Magazzù

Identifiers

DOI

10.7592/EJHR2019.7.1.magazzu