Προσβασιμότητα και Οπτικοακουστική Μετάφραση
Juan José Martínez Sierra
Professor Universitat de València (Spain)
«Audio Description and Humour. A question of polyhedrons?»
The study of the translation of humour in audiovisual texts remains an issue that demands further reflection and empirical findings, especially in practices such as audio description. The central idea of this presentation is the consideration of jokes as polyhedral entities composed of different types of potentially humorous elements that combine to produce the originally intended effect: humour.