Wordplay as a translation problem: A linguistic perspective

Kittel, Harald; Frank, Armin Paul; Greiner, Norbert; Hermans, Théo; Koller, Werner; Lambert, José; Paul, Fritz

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“…Woordspelingen zijn niet per definitie maar wel vaak grappig of minstens licht amusant, zoals de titel Deaf Sentence. Ze vormen namelijk een 'incongruent' taalgebruik omdat ze de intrinsieke meerduidigheid van taalvormen opzoeken en blootleggen (terwijl courant taalgebruik deze meerduidigheid veelal wenst weg te werken); en omdat woordspelingen eveneens de superioriteitsdynamiek van humor aanspreken (Delabastita 2004;Vandaele 2002a).…”

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2019

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“…Other articles that also deal with issues pertaining to literary or poetic translation do not foreground the opposition of "poetic" vs. "ordinary" translation -although they do pay attention to the topic of "poeticalness" or the dominance of the poetic function in verbal art (Gentzler 1998;Kufnerová, Osers 1998;Delabastita 2004a;Gorlée 2004;Nikula 2004). It is interesting to note, however, that the question of the specificity of artistic expression with regard to translation is nowhere emphasised in the articles of semiotics encyclopedias (Eco 1994;Schogt, Toury, Niklas 1994;Waugh, Rudy 1998;Lambert, Robyns 2004) -which must be at least partly due to the fact that artistic translation is not the central focus in these articles, but probably also due to the more general tendency of semiotics not to polarise artistic and "ordinary" expressions but to regard these rather as operating on a gradational scale.…”

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Roman Jakobson and the topic of translation: Reception in academic reference works

Sütiste

2008

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The article describes and analyses connections established between Roman Jakobson’s scholarly legacy and the topic of translation in a selection of academic reference works. The aim in doing so is twofold: first, to look beyond the conventionalised image of Jakobson as an influential scholar for several disciplines, such as translation studies, linguistics and semiotics, and to provide an overview of the actual reception of his ideas on the level of general academic knowledge as presented by scholarly reference works in these fields. Another aim is to find out whether and how Jakobson’s ideas on translation are seen to relate to his other ideas concerning language and communication. It appears that — while there also exist some differences fieldwise as well as among individual reference works — the general reception of Jakobson is based predominantly on just two of his articles (out of his overall legacy of several hundred works) and to a large extent ignores the inner logic of Jakobson’s thought as it manifests in his different works (i.e. there are few connections made between his ideas expressed in his different works).

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“…It is considered as a wordplay that suggests how speakers of a particular language can manipulate the pronunciation of certain words either for their artistic sense, humour, or to conceal the effects of 'naked' words which might be considered inappropriate in certain contexts. Ballard's (1991) quotation in Delabastita (1994) also posits that most ambiguities that may be posed by the use of wordplay are resolved by their context and hence pose no special difficulties, except for people who are keen on the usage of pun; bears a minimal resemblance to the focus of the current study. However, Ballard's attention was directed to how wordplay affects translation.…”

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Punophemisms: Language Use in Ghanaian Hiplife Songs

Avevor,

Polley

2023

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This paper is based on how the youth, especially the Ghanaian hiplife musicians manipulate language through the usage of pun to convey messages to their listeners without necessarily sounding vulgar. It focused on the communication of such words which are considered inappropriate and yet must be spoken of, and how young musicians of Ghana try to use these words in songs so they are not seen as sounding profane or disrespectful. In order to find out how this phenomenon takes place, a number of such linguistic items which give their songs an air of style were analysed in some selected Ghanaian songs. The researchers studied the usage of pun by Ghanaian songsters as a mean of euphemising their speech. Related literature on the phenomenon was reviewed and the topic examined through the lenses of Relevance Theory. The data for this research was drawn from songs of young Ghanaian songsters and the research design was a case study. The research employs the descriptive qualitative approach in the analysis of data. The study was basically into the description of data in some selected Ghanaian songs, and the primary data was the internet where selected songs were downloaded for transcription. In this research, there emerged the term punophemisms to explain and define how pun can be used as euphemism.

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Wordplay as a translation problem: A linguistic perspective

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