Good afternoon, Distinguished profeors and teachers.
I am Gu Danni From the cla of English translation.First, I would like to expre my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Ms.Wang, for her intellectual guidance, invaluable instructions and comments on my thesis.It is with her valuable aistance that I have finally accomplished this paper.
The title of my paper is Strategies in Humor Translation of American Sitcom Friends.As a vital part in translation, the translation of humor in subtitle is gradually capturing an increasing attention and developing into an independent research field.The purpose of the paper is to explore the interpretation of verbal humor in American sitcoms Friends under the guidance of the Functional Equivalence Theory, with the hope of helping people expre humor and understand humor effectively.The final goal of translating a sitcom is to ensure that the target audience can get the humor and appreciate it in the exactly the same manner as the original audiences do,
here is an outline of my presentation and I divide my paper into five parts.Part one and two presents an introduction of this study and Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory, Part three makes a clear illustration of the different categories of humor in Friends，and discued the features of language.Then I apply these strategies to the subtitling of Friends featuring humorous language.Part five draws some conclusions that translators should try to find appropriate strategies to convey the humorous effect and make the cro-cultural communication smoothly.
I hope the paper can provide some insightful opinions for the improvement of humor translation in American sitcoms.However, due to limited time and resources, the paper may have some deficiency, and there is still a long way to go..I’m looking forward to your sincere comments and suggestions.That’s all.Thank you.
