Humour and Translation, an interdiscipline

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Humor and translation - An interdiscipline
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Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · June 2005
DOI: 10.1515/humr.2005.18.2.185
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Humor Volume 18—2 (2005), pages 185-207. Special Issue Humor and 
Translation, Guest Editor, Delia Chiaro. 
print ISSN 0933-1719/05/0018-0185. Mouton de Gruyter . Berlin . New York. 
Humor and translation, an interdiscipline 
PATRICK ZABALBEASCOA
Abstract
This paper calls for greater attention from researchers into the nature of humor 
translation as an interdisciplinary area that should be of interest to translation 
and humor studies. It includes a brief review of the complexity of translation and 
the problems posed by traditional approaches. The paper introduces a number of 
parameters that may be of assistance in developing joke typologies for translators 
or translation scholars. A model is presented for structuring joke-types according 
to binary branching. An attempt is then made to combine the model with ideas 
and concepts put forward in Attardo (2002). The result is a binary branch tree for 
the 6 Knowledge Resources and the hierarchical structure that Attardo claims 
they have. One important conclusion is that sameness, or similarity, may have 
little to do with funniness, and if this is so it is going to create a dilemma for 
translators wishing to achieve equivalent effect. 
 
Keywords: Translation; interdisciplinary; joke-type; variable; mapping, GTVH.