Publications

Publication details [#1032]

Delabastita, Dirk, ed. 1996. Wordplay & translation. Special issue of The Translator 2 (2) 353 pp. URL

Publication type

Special issue

Publication language

English

Keywords

humour=humor=joke | word play=wordplay=pun

Place, Publisher

Manchester: St. Jerome

Main ISBN

1-900650-01-00

Abstract

This special issue of The Translator focuses on wordplay in translation. Wordplay in poetry, the pitfalls of metalingual use in simultaneous interpreting, allusive wordplay and the translation of jokes and puns are among the issues discussed.

Source : J. Vluijmans

Articles in this volume

Hedrick, Tace. Spik in glyph? Translation, wordplay and resistance in Chicano poetry. 141–160

Manini, Luca. Meaningful literary names: their forms and functions, and their translation. 161–178

Viaggio, Sergio. The pitfalls of metalingual use in simultaneous interpreting. 179–198

Leppihalme, Ritva. Caught in the frame: a target-culture viewpoint on allusive wordplay. 199–218

Weissbrod, Rachel. Curiouser and curiouser: Hebrew translation of wordplay in Alice's adventures in Wonderland. 219–234

Zabalbeascoa Terran, Patrick. Translating jokes for dubbed television situation comedies. 235–257

Crisafulli, Edoardo. Dante's puns in English and the question of compensation. 259–276

Golden, Seán. No-man's land on the common borders of linguistics, philosophy & sinology: polysemy in the translation of ancient Chinese texts. 277–304

Geest, Dirk De. Review of There's a double tongue. 328–332

Ballard, Michel. Course profile: wordplay and the didactics of translation. 333–346

Reviewed by

Chiaro, Delia. 2000. Review of Wordplay & translation. Target 12 (1) : 161–166.