Full Description
Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and effects, can so blur the line between translation and adaptation, or can cast such harsh light on our illusion of complete semantic stability. In the pun the whole language system may resonate, and so may literary traditions and ideological discourses. It follows that the pun does not only put translators to the test, it also poses a challenge to the views and concepts of those who study translation.
This book brings together experts on translation and the pun, as well as researchers representing a variety of other relevant disciplines and schools of thought, ranging from theology to deconstruction and from contrastive linguistics to feminism. It can be read as a companion volume to Wordplay and Translation, a special issue of The Translator (Volume 2, Number 2, 1996), also edited by Dirk Delabastita
Contents
Introduction, Dirk Delabastita; Chapter 1 Signature in Translation, Kathleen Davis; Chapter 2 Mutual Pun-ishment?, Luise Von Flotow; Chapter 3 A Portion of Slippery Stones, Anneke de Vries, Arian J.C. Verheij; Chapter 4 La Tour de Babylone, Francine Kaufmann; Chapter 5 There Must Be Some System in this Madness, Bistra Alexieva; Chapter 6 The Contextual Use of Idioms, Wordplay, and Translation, Andrejs Veisbergs; Chapter 7 The Search for Essence 'twixt Medium and Message, Douglas R. Hofstadter; Chapter 8 You Got the Picture?, Henrik Gottlieb; Chapter 9 Mapping Shakespeare's Puns in French Translations, Malcolm Offord; Chapter 10 Traduction, Puns, Clichés, Plagiat, Walter Redfern; Chapter 11 What Is It That Renders a Spoonerism (Un)translatable?, Gideon Toury;
