Sökning: "Henrik Valis"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Henrik Valis.

  1. 1. ¿Se mantiene la comicidad? El humor en la subtitulación sueca de Torrente, un éxito de ventas en España

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Henrik Valis; [2014-10-10]
    Nyckelord :humor; traducción; GTVH; Attardo; subtitulación; Torrente;

    Sammanfattning : To investigate how GTVH (General Theory of Verbal Humor, by Salvatore Attardo) could be used to determine the quality of the humor translation of a local ‘blockbuster’ in Spain, we analyzed the original script of Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998) and compared it with the Swedish translation of Torrente, lagens dumma arm (1999). Because the Swedish translation was only available in subtitles, we resorted to using complementary theory on subtitling for analyzing the subtitles of Torrente as GTVH mainly focuses on jokes and not necessarily audiovisual media such as movies. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Kicking Ass with Style: Linguistic Humor Strategies in Three High-Grossing Action Movie Franchises

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Henrik Valis; [2014-02-11]
    Nyckelord :engelska; humor studies; action movies; linguistics; semantics; pragmatics; sarcasm; puns;

    Sammanfattning : Since the 1980s, the American action hero has become increasingly humor-conscious as he disarms the villains through superior strength but also through superior wit. It is the aim of this study to, from a linguistics perspective, investigate the action hero's use of humor in so-called action blockbusters, i.e. LÄS MER