El comediante invisible: a traducción de la risa en la industria audiovisual contemporánea

Cristian Palacios

doi:10.46401/arec.2025.v17.23506

Authors

Cristian Palacios Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica (CONICET), Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6002-3288

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46401/arec.2025.v17.23506

Keywords:

audiovisual translation, audivisual humor, ridiculous, translation of humor

Abstract

Through the analysis of a corpus of comedy films and TV shows, we aim to examine the work of translators and subtitlers in reproducing jokes, humorous references, and wordplay, with the goal of understanding the linguistic ideologies underlying their decisions. In this way, we propose a counterintuitive hypothesis: that the translation of the ridiculous is not only possible but necessary, and that its effectiveness depends less on the socio-cultural context than commonly believed.

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Author Biography

Cristian Palacios, Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica (CONICET), Argentina

Doutor em Linguística, licenciado e professor no curso de Letras na Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA), pesquisador do Instituto de Linguística da UBA e do CONICET.

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