translation in situation comedy

Nowadays, many Chinese audience watch american situation comedy. in fact,some audience don't know english, even a few of audiences never learn english before. they just watch subtitle and body languages. So that translation is very important in situation comedy.

more and more professors focus on translation in humor, but there is no breakthrough. Attardo said“the existing approaches to humor translation incorporate a theory

of translation and apply it to humor.

Salvatore Attardo is a full professor at Texas A&M University–Commerce and the editor-in-chief of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Research.^[2] He studied at Purdue University under Victor Raskin and extended Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor (SSTH) into the general theory of verbal humor (GTVH). He publishes in the field of humor in literature and is considered to be one of the top authorities in the area.

General Theory of Verbal Humor is the most famous theory in human language, in this theory, Attardo state six issues in humor

script opposition 

script opposition means a script is an organized complex of information about something

logical mechanism

logical mechanism is combine different logical

situation

situation is some ‘prop’ in humor, like character, even and so on

target

Target is the joke in humor

narrative strategy

Narrative strategy is some useful narrative skills

language

Language is the word in humor

Attardo think that Script opposition is most important issue in six issues, and every humor script need include it.

Attardo, S. (1994) Linguistic theories of humor. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Attardo, S. 2002. Translation and Humor: An Approach Based on

the General Theory of Verbal Humor [J]. The Translator 8

(2): 173-194

Salvatore Attardo (2014) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Attardo (Accessed: 2 December 2015).

My practice work

In this term , i learn how to use camera and how to edit video, my project is not good, so ,in next term, i will continue to practice my editing skills

situation comedy analysis

Last week, I posted a questionnaire on the website, it is talk about Chinese situation comedy and American situation comedy. The object is Chinese audience.Now, there are twenty-three subjects give me answers. So today I want to analysis these data.

The first one question is compare Chinese situation and American situation comedy. 12 subjects choice Chinese situation comedy better, 11 subjects choice American situation comedy better. It means that in recent year, Chinese situation comedy is better than before, because ten years before, many Chinese audiences prefer to watch American situation comedy, rather than Chinese situation comedy.

The second question is the best section in Chinese situation comedy, and the options are a script, dialogue, character, narrative, plot. Eight subjects select dialogue and character. Because, in Chinese situation comedy, dialogue and character own Chinese characteristics, and Chinese audience understand those easily.

The third question is the worse section in Chinese situation comedy, and the options are a script, dialogue, character, narrative, plot. Eight subjects select plot. Because, in traditional Chinese situation comedy, there is the single plot, normally talks about family, friends, love. It is easy to understand the script, but sometimes audience feels a little boring.

The fourth question is the best section in American situation comedy; Seven subjects select plot. Because, in the American situation comedy,  the plot is diversification. For example, Modern Family, some plots are talk about family, some plots are talk about friends, some plots are speak of love.

The fifth question is the worse section in American situation comedy. Ten objects select narrative. Because normally Chinese situation comedy is Single-line narrative and narrative structure of each set is similar. Chinese audiences like single-line narrative, because every set is a Full story， it include beginning developing，climax and ending.In another aspect, American situation like using Multi-line narrative. There are many story line in one set. So it makes a little difficult to understand the story.