Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling Humour in How I Met Your Mother

The objective of this thesis is to research the possibilities a subtitler has when subtitling humoristic instances from English into Dutch using subtitles from the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother as a corpus. The research and analysis will be executed by discussing the different types of humoristic instances, as well as the various strategies a subtitler can opt for. These will be compared with one another and a conclusion will be drawn discussing which humoristic instances are translated using which translation strategy. The hypothesis that subtitlers have to settle for the omission of words or phrases to fit the spatial and temporal constraints belonging to audiovisual translation will be tested by researching the various alternative strategies a subtitler can choose from, and which have been chosen by the subtitler of the abovementioned sitcom. An overall conclusion will be drawn, with reference to the results and their analysis, concluding that a subtitler can use a wide...Show moreThe objective of this thesis is to research the possibilities a subtitler has when subtitling humoristic instances from English into Dutch using subtitles from the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother as a corpus. The research and analysis will be executed by discussing the different types of humoristic instances, as well as the various strategies a subtitler can opt for. These will be compared with one another and a conclusion will be drawn discussing which humoristic instances are translated using which translation strategy. The hypothesis that subtitlers have to settle for the omission of words or phrases to fit the spatial and temporal constraints belonging to audiovisual translation will be tested by researching the various alternative strategies a subtitler can choose from, and which have been chosen by the subtitler of the abovementioned sitcom. An overall conclusion will be drawn, with reference to the results and their analysis, concluding that a subtitler can use a wide variety of strategies, and how subtitlers can use those strategies when subtitling humoristic instances in other, similar, films or series. (177 words)Show less

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Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling Humour in How I Met Your Mother