The Analysis of Humor Translation in Subtitles in the Comedy Genre: The Case of Seven Stones Sitcom

Nowadays, media have gained great attention. Governments allocate a great proportion of their national budget to subtitle movies produced in their country to familiarize the foreign audiences with the culture and religion of their country. Seven Stone was one of the sitcoms produced in ۲۰۱۴ and attracted great attention in Iran. It was then subtitled for IRIB which is a TV channel for foreign audiences who do not speak Persian. Needless to say, its translation is completely authentic to work on because it has been produced for a national channel. The study aimed to find the most employed type of humor as well as the strategy used to translate humor in the Persian sitcom Seven Stone subtitled into English. Among the ۲۳ episodes of the sitcom, ۵ episodes were selected as the corpus. Firstly, the Persian transcription of the sitcom was carefully scrutinized to extract humorous items. Then extracted elements were classified in different categories based on Attardo’s (۱۹۹۴) taxonomy. The next step was to find the equivalents of the humorous items in the official English subtitle of the movie. Finally, found items were compared with their equivalents in order to find the strategies adopted by subtitlers in the translation process according to Panek’s model (۲۰۰۹). The result showed that parody with the frequency of ۳۳.۳% was the most common type of humor and paraphrasing with the frequency of ۳۴% and neologism with the frequency of ۱.۱% were respectively the most and least common strategies employed for the translation of humor.

کلیدواژه ها:

Humor ، Humor Translation ، AVT ، Attardo's Taxonomy ، Panek's Model