Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol 11, No 1 (2023)

Maintaining Funniness of Jokes Translated from Indonesian into English

Jehoshua Yeremia Putra Sutanto (Petra Christian University)

Article Info

Publish Date
09 Mar 2023

Abstract

This study is about translation of Indonesian jokes into English. This study is about maintaining the funniness of jokes in Indonesian when translated into Indonesian and the difficulties experienced while translating jokes. Mona Baker [2018] theory is used in this study. The difficulties found also varied, such as errors in word, above word, and grammar in humorous texts. To maintain the funniness of the jokes in English, the writer shifts the jokes after rereading and revising the translation.

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Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
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Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Universitas Kristen Petra Surabaya

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...