ENGLISH PUN AS AN OBJECT OF INTERLINGUAL TRANSLATION (BASED ON TV SERIES “THE BIG BANG THEORY”)
Abstract
Use of puns in our speech enriches it, draws attention to the speaker, makes the process of communication bright and memorable. Puns are used almost everywhere, in literature, in newspaper titles, ads, titles of TV news, TV series, films etc. Pun is a very interesting phenomenon, as it contains information about the country and it reflects some elements of everyday life and art culture. When it comes to the translation of a pun, there are often lots of problems for a translator, as s/ he has a objective hard to achieve: to make a funny English joke based on wordplay understandable and funny as well for a Russian recipient. The article analyzes the English pun in close connection with its contextual characteristics, and also possibilities of its translation into Russian on the example of well-known American TV series “The Big Bang Theory”.
Keywords
каламбур,
игра слов,
перевод,
компенсация,
сериал,
pun,
wordplay,
translation,
compensation,
TV series
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