UNIVERZITA PARDUBICE FAKULTA FILOZOFICKÁ BAKALÁŘSKÁ ...

Table of Contents
0. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 7
1. History and Characteristics of British Comedy ...................................................................... 8
1.1 History of British Comedy ................................................................................................ 8
1.2 Characteristics of British Comedy .................................................................................. 10
1.2.1 Subject Matters ........................................................................................................ 11
1.2.2 Butts of Jokes ........................................................................................................... 16
1.2.3 Mediums for Expressing British Humor .................................................................. 19
2. Issues in Translating Humor ................................................................................................. 22
2.1 Typology of Jokes ........................................................................................................... 23
2.1.1 International or Bi-national Jokes ............................................................................ 23
2.1.2 Culture-bound Jokes ................................................................................................ 23
2.1.3 Community-based Jokes .......................................................................................... 24
2.1.4 Language-dependent Jokes ...................................................................................... 25
2.1.5 Visual Jokes ............................................................................................................. 26
2.1.6 Complex Jokes ......................................................................................................... 26
3. Translation Issues in Selected Extracts ................................................................................. 28
3.1 Language-dependent Jokes ............................................................................................. 28
3.2 Culture-bound Jokes ....................................................................................................... 39
3.3 Complex Jokes ................................................................................................................ 41
4. Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 45
5. Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 47
I. Printed Sources .................................................................................................................. 47
II. Online Sources ................................................................................................................. 48
6. Appendix ............................................................................................................................... 55