Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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Ítem A relevance-theoretic account of translating jokes with sexual innuendos in Modern Family into Spanish(2021) Díaz-Pérez, Francisco JavierThe main purpose of this paper is to analyse jokes containing sexual innuendos in ambiguous utterances from the first two seasons of Modern Family and their translation into Spanish using relevance theory. More often than not, the ambiguity and sexual innuendos are also reflected in the Spanish versions analysed. Hence, in all those cases, in relevance-theoretical terms, the cognitive effects intended in the source text (ST), including humorous ones, will also be accessible to target text (TT) viewers. It, therefore, follows that the pragmatic scenario is preserved in the TT, sometimes at the expense of a sacrifice in the semantic scenario. In audio-visual texts, ambiguity may also impact the visual channel. Although in some cases the visual component may render the translator’s task difficult, in others it may act as an aid to both the translator and TT viewer, contributing to the yielding of humorous effects.Ítem Translating humorous puns in Almodóvar’s films. A cognitive-pragmatic approach(Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2019) Díaz-Pérez, Francisco JavierThe use of language in dialogues is a paramount element in Almodóvar’s films, as highlighted more than once. The main purpose of the present chapter, in this sense, is to give a cognitive-pragmatic account of the translation solutions used by translators to render language-specific jokes in the English subtitles of Almodóvar’s films. More specifically, the translation of humorous puns is analysed from the perspective of Relevance Theory. Regarding the translation of puns in the corpus of this study, more often than not those cognitive effects associated with the processing of wordplay are also accessible to the target audience. Thus, in 66.3% of the cases the pragmatic scenario has been preserved, even if the semantic scenario had to be changed to a greater or lesser extent. In this way, the inferential strategies which made the derivation of humorous effects in the SL possible were preserved in the TT. The type of pun variable has been analysed and has been found to affect the choice of translation solution. In this sense, a polysemic pun is much more likely to be maintained in the TT if translated literally than a phonologic pun. Therefore, whereas punning correspondence is the most frequent solution for phonologic puns, in the case of idomatic puns the most common solution was change of pun, which also was, together with direct copy, the preferred one for puns rooted in phonology.Ítem Translating swear words from English into Galician in film subtitles. A corpus-based study(2020) Díaz-Pérez, Francisco JavierAs stated by Jay and Janschewitz (2008), the primary pragmatic function of swear words is to express emotions, such as anger and frustration. The main objective of the present paper is to analyse the translation of the two commonest English swear words, fuck and shit (Jay 2009: 156) – together with their morphological variants – into Galician. The research instrument used for this purpose has been the Veiga Corpus, a bilingual English-Galician corpus of subtitles. Regarding the results obtained in this study, the most frequent solution has been pragmatic correspondence, followed by omission, softening, and de-swearing. However, descending in the analysis, clear differences emerge between the treatment of the two words. Thus, the tendency to sanitize the Galician subtitles by omitting, neutralizing or smoothing swearwords is much more evident in the case of fuck. This finding may be explained by the difference in tone between the two taboo words analysed. As shit is considered milder, translators may feel there is no need to tone it down. In addition, while shit has a literal translation which is perfectly natural in Galician, that is not the case with fuck. Finally, the grammatical category variable has also been found to have an effect on the choice of translation solution.Ítem Translation of Interjections and Subtitling: A Study Based on the BETA Corpus of TV Series and Film Subtitles(2023) Díaz-Pérez, Francisco JavierInterjections, often considered minor and peripheral linguistic elements, have been disregarded in both linguistic and translation-studies research. The main aim of this paper, in this sense, is to analyse the translation of three primary and three secondary interjections in a parallel English-Spanish corpus of subtitles. More specifically, the interjections under study were ah, wow, ugh, God, damn, and shit, and the corpus used was the BETA corpus. Four main translation solutions have been identified: literal translation, translation by an interjection with a different form, translation by a textual fragment which contains no interjection, and omission. The results of the study indicate that the most frequent translation solution in the whole corpus has been omission, followed by the translation by a different interjection. In a more fine-grained analysis, the two variables analysed, namely type of interjection and specific interjection, have been found to condition the choice of translation solution.Ítem Translation problems in the translation of two film versions of Alice in Wonderland into Spanish. A cognitive-pragmatic approach(Peter Lang, 2019) Díaz-Pérez, Francisco JavierWhen a given text is lo be rendered in a different language, there are normally certain translation problems associated with language and culture that the translalor will have to face and find a solution to. In those cases in which the source text is an audiovisual text, those problems become more complex, as very often the relation between image and language will have to be taken into account. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategies used by the translators to tackle translation problems such as the translation of puns or the translation of cultural references in the Spanish sublitled and dubbed versions of two films based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The two films referred to are Tim Burton's (2010) Alice in Wonderland and the animated film with the same title directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamillon Luske in 1951, both of them produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The approach adopted in this study is a cognitive-pragmatic one. More specifically, Sperber and Wilson's (1986/1995) Relevance Theory has been used as the theoretical framework of this study. According to Relevance Theory, the relation between a translation and its source text is considered to be based on interpretive resemblance, rather than on equivalence (See Gutt 1998, 2000). The translator would try to seek optimal relevance, in such a way that s/he would use different strategies to try to recreate the cognitive effects intended by the source communicator with the lowest possible processing effort on the part of the target addressee.