The Untranslatability of Humour from English into Arabic in the Novel entitled The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Abstract

The present study identifies the translation strategies used to solve the linguistic and cultural problems of the untranslatability of humour. It also investigates difficulties in translating English humour in the novel entitled ―The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‖ to Arabic. Qualitative method was adopted in this study. In addition, the collected data in this study includes the Arabic translation of twenty passages of the novel. The researchers have translated a number of chapters and selected a few passages to analyse by using Fairclough‘s model of CDA