When I was asked by John Benjamins a few years ago whether I would consider presenting
the book Translation Studies. An Integrated Approach (1988, 19952) in a third revised …

Verbal humour travels badly. As it crosses geographic boundaries humour has to come to
terms with linguistic and cultural elements which are often only typical of the source culture …

This chapter explores the translational problems that particularly apply to humorous texts,
which, like poetry, present especially challenging difficulties. Studies regarding prestigious …

Abstract Verbally Expressed Humour (VEH) is a specific variety of language which has been
largely ignored by scholars despite its widespread use in numerous text types. Apart from …

A small-scale investigation was carried out to explore how Italian audiences perceive
Verbally Expressed Humour (VEH) when it is translated for the screen and how far …

In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines,
with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications …

Статья посвящена исследованию специфики юмора раннего произведения М. Эмиса
«The Rachel Papers» в сопоставлении оригинального текста с русским переводом …

Academic writings on humour and translation have principally pivoted around the pragma-
linguistic aspects of transfer from source to target language/s (eg Chiaro; Delabastita; …

'Allo'Allo! was a British sitcom that ran on BBC 1 from 1982 to 1992. It was created by David
Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, who were also responsible as a team for Are You Being Served …

The increasing entertainment-oriented tendency of the news engages audiences' emotions
more readily. This trend has triggered my interest in studying the humorous aspects of …