Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2009. / Typescript.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 584-633). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MEd (Education and Social Science))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010 / The purpose of this study is to discover the critical reader-responses of Grade 4 children to a novel written by Judy Blume (1980). The theoretical framework is based on the socio-cultural theories of learning, as well as Rosenblatt's critical reader response theory (1986). I examine the following issues: Cambourne's (2004) principles of engagement, Feuersteins' Mediated Learning Experience (1991), Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (1978), Erikson's Industry versus Inferiority (in Boeree, 2006), as well as Scaffolding (Vygotsky in Olivier 2010, 22-23). The literature review includes the most recent published literature pertaining to my research. Video interviews, as well as reflective journalling were used to gather data. My research answers the following research question: What are the critical reader responses of Grade 4 children to Superfudge, by Judy Blume? My argument, based on Rosenblatt's critical reader-response theory (1986) accurately reflected the manner in which the Grade 4 children rnade meaning of prescribed texts. My data was analysed qualitatively, using an inductive approach. In my findings five themes emerged: finding an authentic voice, gaining identity, the entertainment value of the novel, family dynamics with specific reference to siblings and the relocation of families. The discussion examines insights which emerged from my research. These insights are reviewed in relation to my theoretical frames and relevant literature. In conclusion the process of critical reader-response theory empowers children to develop critical thinking skills and habits that underlie effective reading.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Translation Johannesburg, 2016 / The aim of this paper is to investigate how the different types of humour in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens have been translated into French and German as De Bons Présages and Ein Gutes Omen, respectively. This study applies frame semantics to analyse how the translators recreated the humour of the ST in the instances that they were able to do so. This theory examines how context is created and what expectations arise from an individual’s knowledge of context i.e. their understanding of the context and what the reader or hearer associates with it. The novel involves several subplots, but the same humorous elements such as puns, parody and an invented archaic variety of English appear throughout the book and it is the aim of this study to determine how these elements were dealt with by the translators. I will compare the two translations and determine how, and if each translator was able to recreate the same frames that made the ST humorous. / MT2017

This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of Pangamonium is an exegesis of the novel. It explores the ludic mode, which it considers an open play of signification characterised by freedom, reflexivity and subversion, and it explores the work of Nabokov, Calvino and Borges to explicate manifestations of play. Pangamonium is also examined in the light of its mythic hero quest structure and its relationship to the discourses of Orientalism and Neocolonialism. / Thesis (Ph.D.) - School of Humanities, 2007.

幽默是人類社會的一種普遍現象，是人們言語交際的一部分，在日常生活中無處不在。研究者們對幽默的研究涵蓋了心理學、哲學、社會學、人類學、神學、文化學等不同的領域。幽默被認為是最難研究的課題之一，翻譯幽默更是難上加難。我們至今對言語幽默的文本語言特徵、對言語幽默的譯文的文本語言特徵、對涉及言語幽默的翻譯過程知之不多。在言語幽默的翻譯中，有時候原文的幽默信息在譯文中完全保留，有時候則不能，原因何在，有關這方面的研究至今不多見；以漢語幽默文本的英譯為語料建立單向平行語料庫，探討漢語言語幽默英譯的一般及特殊規律的研究，尚無人做過，這正是本研究的目的所在。 / 本研究以錢鍾書的小說《圍城》及其英譯本為語料，運用言語幽默概論的理論框架，建立原文和譯文對照的雙語單向平行語料庫，采用語料庫檢索的方法，對語料進行描寫與分析，得出了“譯文要傳遞原文幽默信息需要保留或轉換原文的表層及深層參數特徵，特別是深層參數的腳本對立、表層參數的修辭手段及語言中的本源概念的研究結論。 / 主要研究結果有三： / 一是展示了言語幽默翻譯的一般規律，即“譯文需要保留原文中的腳本對立； / 二是展現了漢語言語幽默翻譯的特殊規律，即“要保留原文中的腳本對立，就需要轉換漢語所特有的修辭手段和漢語本源概念； / 三是顯示了漢語言語幽默的文本語言特徵，即，漢語言語幽默具有表層和深層的參數特徵。表層參數的核心是修辭手段，深層參數的核心是腳本對立；表層參數具有“相似性之奇特統一、“語言要素之巧妙轉移和“不和諧邏輯間之和諧三大特徵；深層參數具有“真實的與非真實的語境對立、“正常的與非正常的語境對立、“合理與不合理的語境對立三大特徵，反映了現實與經驗、話語現實與語言經驗、話語邏輯與正常邏輯的矛盾衝突。 / Humour is regarded as a universal human phenomenon, and funny situations, funny stories, even funny thoughts occur everyday to virtually everybody (Raskin 1985: 1). Humour represents a multidisciplinary and fertile research field. So is Translation Studies. Both draw from linguistics, psychology and sociology, among other disciplines, for their descriptions and their theoretical models and constructs (Zabalbeascoa 2005: 185). What is surprising is that the link between translation and humour has not received sufficient attention from scholars in either field (ibid). / This research attempts to explore how Chinese humorous texts are transferred into English and what factors affect humour transference in the target text, with a focus on the universality of the translation process, by tapping on fresh methodologies of modern Translation Studies such as bilingual corpora and the General Theory of Verbal Humor. The bilingual corpus for the research is from Wei Cheng (Fortress Besieged) (1947/1991/2003), a humorous fiction by the Chinese writer Ch’ien Chung-shu (1910-1998) and its English translation by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao (1979/2003). Adopting the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) (Attardo & Raskin 1991; Attardo 1994, 2001) as the theoretical framework, the research makes a quantitative and qualitative analysis on the samplings from the corpus and obtains some encouraging findings as follows: / (a) Transference of humour in the source text to the target text needs transference of the Script Opposition embedded in the deep parameters of the source text, which shows the universality of translating Chinese verbal humour into English; / (b) More specifically, transference of the Script Opposition embedded in the deep parameters requires transference of specific Chinese rhetoric devices and socioculturally-bound Chinese alien sources in the target text; / (c) Chinese verbal humour has three features in the surface parameters and three features in the deep parameters, which shows the textual characteristics of Chinese verbal humour. The surface parameters show the features of similarity among quite different things, transference among quite different linguistic elements and congruity among incongruous logical elements. The deep parameters show the following three features: opposition between real and unreal situations; opposition between normal and abnormal situations, opposition between possible, plausible and fully or partially impossible or much less plausible situations. / The research draws a conclusion that verbal humour may travel from one culture to another via translation if the target text successfully transfers the Script Opposition embedded in the deep parameters of the source text, the Rhetorical Device in the surface parameters and the alien concepts hidden in the Language Parameter. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 戈玲玲. / Sumitted date: 2011年12月. / Sumitted date: 2011 nian 12 yue. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-319) / Electronic reproduction. 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Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Ge Lingling. / 摘要 --- p.i / 前言 --- p.vi / 目錄 --- p.vii / 圖表目錄 --- p.x / Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 研究目的 --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- 原文及作者簡介 --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- 《圍城》的外文譯本 --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4 --- 對《圍城》及其英譯本的研究 --- p.16 / Chapter 1.5 --- 論文結構 --- p.20 / Chapter 第二章 --- 幽默評述及研究 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- 詞典中對幽默的定义 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2 --- 前人對幽默的評述與研究 --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 西方的評述與研究 --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 中國的評述與研究 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.2.2.1 --- 林語堂、錢鍾書論幽默 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2.2.2 --- 其他評述與研究 --- p.34 / Chapter 2.3 --- 言語幽默的可譯性 --- p.37 / Chapter 2.4 --- 小結 --- p.42 / Chapter 第三章 --- 理論框架 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- 語義腳本理論 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2 --- 言語幽默概論 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 六個參數 --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.1.1 --- 四個必要參數 --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.1.2 --- 兩個可選參數 --- p.59 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 六個參數的層級排列：言語幽默相似度測量系統 --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3 --- 言語幽默概論運用於幽默翻譯研究：Attardo（2002） --- p.70 / Chapter 3.4 --- 理論框架的延伸 --- p.73 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- 漢語特有的修辞手段 --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- 言語幽默語段的表層參數和深層參數 --- p.76 / Chapter 3.4.2.1 --- 表層參數 --- p.78 / Chapter 3.4.2.2 --- 深層參數 --- p.84 / Chapter 3.5 --- 小結 --- p.87 / Chapter 第四章 --- 《圍城》中幽默語段及其英譯本的雙語平行語料庫 --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1 --- 抽樣過程 --- p.90 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 《圍城》及其英譯本讀者問卷調查 --- p.90 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 理論參數 --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2 --- 建立語料庫 --- p.92 / Chapter 4.3 --- 標注漢英對應文本 --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 技術性標注 --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 理論參數標注 --- p.95 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- 本源概念及其翻譯策略的標注 --- p.97 / Chapter 4.4 --- 檢索漢英對應文本 --- p.99 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- 檢索編程 --- p.100 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- 檢索功能 --- p.102 / Chapter 4.5 --- 標注的誤差測定 --- p.114 / Chapter 4.6 --- 小結 --- p.117 / Chapter 第五章 --- 原文中言語幽默語段的分析 --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1 --- 原文幽默語段的表層特徵 --- p.118 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- 表層特徵一：相似性之奇特統一 --- p.119 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- 表層特徵二：語言要素之巧妙轉移 --- p.129 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- 表層特徵三：不和諧邏輯間之和諧 --- p.138 / Chapter 5.2 --- 原文幽默語段的深層特徵 --- p.143 / Chapter 5.3 --- 不規範的參數類型 --- p.149 / Chapter 5.4 --- 表層與深層特徵的對應關係 --- p.160 / Chapter 5.5 --- 小結 --- p.169 / Chapter 第六章 --- 英譯本分析 --- p.171 / Chapter 6.1 --- 英譯本的表層特徵 --- p.172 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- 譯文表層特徵一：相似性之奇特統一 --- p.172 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- 譯文表層特徵二：語言要素之巧妙轉移 --- p.182 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- 譯文表層特徵三：不和諧邏輯間之和諧 --- p.186 / Chapter 6.2. --- 英譯本的深層特徵 --- p.186 / Chapter 6.3 --- 不規範的參數類型 --- p.194 / Chapter 6.4 --- 譯文表層與深層特徵的對應關係 --- p.212 / Chapter 6.5 --- 小結 --- p.222 / Chapter 第七章 --- 譯文、原文對比分析 --- p.224 / Chapter 7.1 --- 譯文、原文總體對比 --- p.224 / Chapter 7.2 --- 譯文、原文分類對比 --- p.226 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- 同型轉換 --- p.227 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- 異型轉換 --- p.229 / Chapter 7.3 --- 譯文、原文表層參數與深層參數的異同對比 --- p.231 / Chapter 7.4 --- 譯文、原文表層與深層特徵對比 --- p.234 / Chapter 7.5 --- 譯文、原文參數的層級排列對比 --- p.235 / Chapter 7.5.1 --- 參數層級排列與原文的參數排列對比 --- p.235 / Chapter 7.5.2 --- 參數層級排列與譯文的參數排列對比 --- p.237 / Chapter 7.5.3 --- 譯文、原文中六個參數的層級排列對比 --- p.239 / Chapter 7.6 --- 小結 --- p.241 / Chapter 第八章 --- 《圍城》中言語幽默的英譯策略 --- p.243 / Chapter 8.1 --- 同型轉換時的翻譯策略 --- p.244 / Chapter 8.2 --- 異型轉換時的翻譯策略--譯文仍然是幽默語段 --- p.259 / Chapter 8.3 --- 異型轉換時的翻譯策略--譯文不是幽默語段 --- p.267 / Chapter 8.4 --- 小結暨討論 --- p.282 / Chapter 第九章 --- 結論 --- p.286 / Chapter 9.1 --- 研究結果 --- p.286 / Chapter 9.2 --- 研究局限 --- p.291 / Chapter 9.3 --- 研究前景 --- p.292 / 附錄一 --- p.294 / 參考文獻 --- p.307

Text in English / This study focuses on the strategies and devices used to create humour in children’s literature. No language is a replica of another language and it is generally accepted that a translator has to be creative in order to make the Source Text (ST) meaning available to the Target Text (TT) reader. The research conducted in this study aims to fill a gap regarding the application of humour in the rather under-researched field of children’s literature. A descriptive framework was used to conduct this qualitative study in order to be able to describe the linguistic strategies and devices used to translate the English source text by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator into the Afrikaans Target Text, Charlie en die Groot Glashyser by Kobus Geldenhuys. Literary devices to create humour, employed by both the writer and the translator, were identified and analysed. Interviews and reading sessions with ST learners (English) as well as TT learners (Afrikaans) were conducted in order to observe their non-verbal reactions as well as document their verbal comments to complement the data obtained from the textual analysis. The textual analysis showed that the literary device most frequently applied in the ST was the simile and the main trend regarding the transference of humorous devices to the TT was to retain the device with formal equivalence. The most popular translation strategy was direct translation with the most important shifts identified on morphological and lexical level and shifts in expressive and evoked meaning were relatively low. With regard to the reading sessions, the most positive results from both groups of learners regarding humorous devices in the ST and TT were obtained for the device of inappropriate behaviour. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Linguistics)