Dimensions of Humor : Explorations in Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies and Translation / Carmen Valero-Garcés.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valero Garcés, Carmen, author.

Series:

English in the world series ; Volume 5.

English in the World Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Cognition.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

València, Spain : Universitat de València, [2010]

Summary:

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to exploring humor in the academic world. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives and practical orientations in the disciplines of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation, but all concerned with the interactional aspects of humor.

Contents:

Found in translation : crosstalk as a form of humour / Delia Chiaro

"A musical comedy without music" : P.G. Wodehouse's sense of humour / Vicente López Folgado

A cognitive approach to humor in political cartoons / Isabel Negro Alousque

Comic strips in the classroom linguistically and pragmatically considered : a first description of cases / Eduardo José Varela Bravo

Socio-political cartoons : a reflection of cultural values / Elizabeth Woodward Smith

Intensification, reduction or preservation of irony? : Gunter Grass's Im Krebsgang and its translation into English / Diana Coromines i Calders

Visual rhythm, iconicity and typography : the ways to humour in E. E. Cummings' poetry / Teresa González Mínguez

How to tackle humour in literary narratives / Cristina Larkin Galinanes

Igor Delgado Senior's Epopeya Malandra : a study of parody and humor in literature / Diana Pifano

Humor and Arabs / Raoudha Kammoun

Foolery as a means to personal safety : the comic apprehension of power relations in Emile Habibi's The Pessoptimist / Ibrahim A. El-Hussari

A humorous portrait of the English Culture : Julio Camba's London / Marta Nadales Ruiz

Pitfalls, impossibilities and small victories in translating Australian humour : a case study on Tim Winton's Cloudstreet and Dirt Music / Jorge Salavert

What's in a title? : Transposing black comedy titles for Italian viewers / Chiara Bucaria

The audiovisual translation of fixed expressions and idiom-based puns / Margherita Dore

Shopping around : translating humour in audiovisual and multimedia advertising / Adrián Fuentes Luque

Translating humour in comics for children : a Donald Duck comic strip and its Italian translation / Margherita Ippolito

Roman satire and the General Theory of Verbal Humor / Heather Vincent

Humour in advertisment translation : with special reference to translation between Chinese and English / Cui Ying and Zhao Jing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from pdf title page (Digitalia, viewed October 9, 2015)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788437082905

8437082900

OCLC:

992085620