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Peer reviewedVasconcellos, Muriel – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1986
Humor--and communication itself--when translating from one language to another, depends on an accumulation of shared understandings about how people say things in a given culture. Examples are given in translations of Portuguese to English and English to Portuguese. (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, English
