Understanding Humor in Drama Translation: With Focus on American Sitcom Modern Family

• 발행기관: 한국통번역교육학회
• 저자명: Lee Seungjae
• 간행물 정보: 『통번역교육연구』통번역교육연구 제12권 제2호, 157~178쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.09.30

영문 초록

This paper concerns about the translation of humor in drama subtitles. The data is taken from American situational comedy Modern Family Season I, and reviewed how humors in the American sitcoms are appreciated by the Korean viewers in terms of comparing closed captioned English and Korean subtitles. It is true to humor that cultural understanding takes more important position than any other literary works. First the general concept of humor will be discussed, and the way how humor is translated will be briefly reviewed. And then the sitcom Modern Family Season I will be introduced and analyzed adopted from three types of humors of Raphaelson-West (1989)’s three types of jokes. In analyzing the corpus of the TV sitcoms, this paper uses a descriptive and analytic approach in which examples were collected, categorized and explained. Consequently, the findings shows that the linguistic humors are most challenging to translators than the general humors, and the cultural understanding is most required to make up the gap.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Literature Review

III. Case Study

IV. Conclusion

References

[Abstract]

키워드

translation of humor drama subtitles Modern Family cultural understanding