Wordplay in translation

Jeroen Vandaele
University of Oslo
Table of contents

Dirk Delabastita's definition of wordplay is dense but comprehensive:

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References

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Further reading

Delabastita, Dirk
1993 There's a Double Tongue: An Investigation into the Translation of Shakespeare's Wordplay, with special reference to Hamlet. Amsterdam: Rodopi.Google Scholar
Heibert, Frank
1993 Das Wortspiel als Stilmittel und seine Übersetzung am Beispiel von sieben Übersetzungen des ‘Ulysses’ von James Joyce. Tübingen: Narr.  TSBGoogle Scholar
Tęcza, Zygmunt
1997 Das Wortspiel in der Übersetzung. Stanislaw Lems Spiele mit dem Wort als Gegenstand interlingualen Transfers. Tübingen: Niemeyer. DOI logo  BoPGoogle Scholar