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Title Punning and Its Translation in English TV Commercials

Abstract

Television commercial is an important form of advertising. Since television advertising is broadcasted through visual media, compared with other forms of advertising, the language in television commercials has its own characteristics. And punning is a very common rhetoric used in English advertisement. The puns in English television commercials are emphatically discussed in this paper. By the ways of phonetics puns, semantics puns, grammatical puns and idiomatic puns, the technique of puns is expressed. Pun translation itself is a difficult point for the translators while the translation of puns in commercials is even more complicated. Taking Nida’s functional equivalence theory as the instruction, combining with the instances, this paper discusses approaches to translate puns in commercials and tries to explore the strategy of puns translation.

Keywords   TV commercial   pun   translation   functional equivalence theory   strategy

Table of Contents

1  Introduction 1

2  Features of Commercial Language 2

2.1  Complementariness 2

2.2  Colloquial Sentences 3

3  Puns in English Commercials 3

3.1  Homophonic Pun 4

3.2  Homographic Pun 6

3.3  Grammatical Pun 7

3.4  Parody Pun 7

4  Translation of puns in commercials 9

4.1  Obstacles to Translating Pun 9

4.2  Nida’s Functional Equivalence 9

4.3  Approaches to Translate Pun in Commercial 10

Conclusion 13

Acknowledgements 14

Bibliography 15

1 Introduction 

Advertising language has long attracted a lot of attention of the researchers studying on varied subjects like Business Promotion, Consumer Psychology and Customer Praxiology. The reason is obvious since the ultimate goal of advertising is to encourage people to purchase the merchandise advertised. However, the language used by the advertisers does not only arouse the interest of business researchers but also the people who are into the linguistic choices themselves. In advertising language, many kinds of rhetoric are used; however, the author chooses punning and its translation as the subject of this study for the following reasons:

Firstly, compared with general translation, the translation of puns should be paid more attention to because puns are always of two or more meanings .And for the translators, it is not easy to translate all their meanings. Hence some linguistic theories are required to be guidance in discussing the translating of puns.