Translating interactional humour into Spanish: idiom, scope, polysemy, homonymy and near-homonymy in the decoding and recoding of humour

Guadalupe García González, University of Nottingham INTRODUCTION The translation of humour depends on procedures different from those involved in translation in general, because a full comprehension and appreciation of humoristic patterns is required before the reconstruction of the text in the target language can be attempted (Vandaele, 2002:151). In the last few decades theorists have […]