Since the early days of cinema, the translation techniques used to create subtitles have gone largely unchanged. Although these cinematic translations are characterized by both corruption and textual deformation, audiovisual translators have historically justified such textual violence by citing the temporal and spatial constraints necessitated by the subtitling apparatus. This thesis takes the corruption of contemporary film translation techniques, particularly those used to translate humor, as a point of departure in order to question the ethics of these subtitles from both a practical and theoretical standpoint. The study also includes an English to Spanish translation of the film Iron Man 3 (2013) in order to root larger theoretical questions regarding the translation of humor and slang in specific examples.

Submitted by WALKIRIA FRANÇA VIEIRA E TEIXEIRA null (walkiriateixeira@bol.com.br) on 2016-03-15T14:26:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Doutorado-WalkiriaTeixeira.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-03-15T14:58:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 teixeira_wfv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T14:58:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 teixeira_wfv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a manutenção do humor no texto midiático, a partir da compilação e análise de três corpora paralelos das legendas em inglês e de suas respectivas traduções para o português dos episódios de três temporadas de cada uma das sitcoms Seinfeld, Friends e The Simpsons. Buscamos analisar elementos que pudessem contribuir para desencadear o humor nas sitcoms, e levantar se as ocorrências de humor seriam recorrentes aos diferentes tipos de sitcoms. Abordamos os estudos sobre humor desenvolvidos por Raskin (1979, 1985), Attardo e Raskin (1991), Attardo (1994, 2002, 2008) e Vandaele (1999b, 2010); os estudos sobre a Tradução do Humor Audiovisual feitos por Gottlieb (1992, 1998, 2005), Martinez-Sierra (2003, 2004), Carvalho (2005), Díaz-Cintas e Sánchez (2006), Díaz-Cintas e Remael (2007) e Veiga (2006, 2009). Apoiamo-nos na abordagem interdisciplinar adotada por Camargo (2007, 2008), a qual se fundamenta no arcabouço teórico-metodológico dos Estudos da Tradução Baseados em Corpus lançados por Baker (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004), para a investigação de ocorrências dos vocábulos, além da metodologia da Linguística de Corpus adotada por Berber-Sardinha (2004). Contamos com o auxílio dos programas computacionais WordSmith Tools e Align Assist para auxiliar no levantamento dos dados. Os resultados apontaram que a frequência de Advérvios de Negação, Intensificadores e Interjeições presentes nas legendas das sitcoms podem se caracterizar como elementos constitutivos do humor. / The objective of this study was to analyze the maintenance of humor in the media text, starting from the compilation and analysis of a parallel corpus of English subtitles and their translations into Portuguese, from the episodes of three seasons of each sitcoms: Seinfeld, Friends and The Simpsons. We analyze the elements that could contribute to trigger the humor in the sitcoms, searching if the occurrences of humor would be recurring to the different types of sitcoms. We based our research in the studies of humor developed by Raskin (1979, 1985), Attardo and Raskin (1991), Attardo (1994, 2002, 2008) and Vandaele (1999b, 2010); the studies of Audiovisual Humour Translation made by Gottlieb (1992, 2001, 2005), Martinez-Sierra (2003, 2004), Carvalho (2005), Díaz-Cintas and Sánchez (2006), Díaz-Cintas and Remael (2007) and Veiga (2006, 2009). We rely on the interdisciplinary approach adopted by Camargo (2007, 2008), which is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of Corpus-Based Translation Studies proposed by Baker (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004), as well as the Corpus Linguistics methodology adopted by Berber-Sardinha (2004), in order to investigate vocabulary occurrences. We rely on the assistance of computer softwares WordSmith Tools and Align Assist to help with data collection. The results pointed that the frequency of Denial Adverbs, Intensifiers and Interjections present in the sitcoms subtitles’ can be characterized as humor elements’ constituents.