Wordplay Based on Lexical Ambiguity in the British Sitcom Yes Minister and Its Czech Translations

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Wordplay Based on Lexical Ambiguity in the British Sitcom Yes Minister and Its Czech Translations
Original language description
This paper compares English puns exploiting polysemy and homonymy in the Yes Minister series and their translations into Czech. The aim of the study is twofold: first, to investigate the basic principles of language these puns rely on, and second, to systematically analyse the ways these puns are rendered into a language that is typologically different from English. The mechanism involved here is frame-shifting (Coulson et al., 2006): a cue in the context forces the reader to abandon a frame originally activated in the disambiguating process and to retrieve another, often incompatible, frame. Though, arguably, this mechanism works for Czech as it does for English, the arbitrariness of the relation between the form and the meaning of a linguistic item is likely to make it difficult “to pun on the same item in two different languages” (Chiaro, 2010, p. 8). In our data, this applies to homonymy and polysemy alike.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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