Cross-language comedy in Shakespeare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12196330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dirk Delabastita (0000-0002-7801-6307, KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0933-1719 • E-ISSN: 1613-3722 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/humr.2005.18.2.161 |
| OpenAlex | W1966095262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This paper presents a typology and brief overview of the humorous scenes in Shakespeare’s plays which derive their comic energy from bilingual and / or translation-based situations. To begin with, four different subtypes of the polyglot pun are distinguished. Two of those turn out to be productive in Shakespeare’s works. The paper then considers the standard expectations associated with the ‘‘normal’’ script of interlingual translation and indicates how in a variety of Shakespearean scenes the breaking of these expectations contributes to producing effects of comic incongruity
Art · Comedy · Comics · Linguistics · Literature · Polyglot · Sociology · Translation (biology · Typology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |