Discovering the Identity of Pun in English and Indonesian Subtitles: A Study of Pun Translation Strategies in “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run”

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10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_21How to use a DOI?

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Pun; Strategies; Sponge on the Run Translation

Abstract

Pun dominates the style of jokes in SpongeBob animation shows. The characters no doubt add a number of types of puns in several scenes. Pun is a humorous use of a word or phrase that has several meanings or sounds like another word. Translating pun is challenging for a translator, as it does not frequently have the equivalent words in a target language. This study examines six types of puns, namely, paronymy, homonymy, homography, homophony, polysemy, and idioms; as well as the use of translation strategies of this pun..This research is qualitative research. Qualitative research generally examines people’s words and action in narrative or descriptive ways more closely representing the situation as experienced by participants. Seven data are found in this study. As a result, the pun paronymy type is widely used in the SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Paronymy is a pun based on two expression that have different meanings but have slightly different in pronunciation and spelling. Meanwhile, the most translation strategy used is pun to non-pun. Pun to non-pun is a strategy where the original pun was changed into a phrase or word in TT, can be retaining all of the original meanings. The conclusion of this study study, the translator tends to change the pun to other words or phrases, in order to retain the meaning of the original puns.

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AU  - Ode Alleluia Pangaksami
AU  - Raden Arief Nugroho
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - Discovering the Identity of Pun in English and Indonesian Subtitles: A Study of Pun Translation Strategies in “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run”
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 197
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SN  - 2352-5398
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