Can you amuse the audience through an interpreter
Parliamentary interpreting and humour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21584148 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk (0000-0001-6645-1849, University of Silesia in Katowice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-49 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Target International Journal of Translation Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0924-1884 • E-ISSN: 1569-9986 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/target.22003.bar |
| OpenAlex | W4385580480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
In this article, I investigate how interpreters handle humorous utterances during plenary debates of the European Parliament, focusing on the input by one Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The source speeches (in Polish or English) are analysed bottom-up to identify the types of humour favoured by the speaker. The most frequent ones are irony, ad hominem arguments with an element of ridicule, absurdity, and shifts in register. Subsequently, a pragmatically oriented comparative analysis is conducted to assess whether and how individual instances of humour are transferred by interpreters. Additionally, possible side effects are considered, such as shifts accompanying transferred humour and message incoherence resulting from humour loss. Register humour is typically removed by interpreters. The successful handling of absurdity relies mainly on compression and often fails, while ad hominem and irony appear to be relatively less challenging to interpret. Interestingly, irony is occasionally added by interpreters, either to boost the speaker’s comical intent or to distance themselves from his views
Absurdity · Art · Interpreter · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Parliament · Political science · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |