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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Czech and Slovak Linguistic Review

ISSN

1805-1502

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Svazek periodika

2017

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

5-22

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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