abdolbaset arab yusef abadi

There is no doubt that a considerable part of famous animations have been formed for educational and entertaining purposes, and the creators of these works, relying on the literary language, introduce their target community (children) to the world of humor and its expression techniques. The more humor is norm-breaking in these visual-verbal genres, the more audience it would attract. This feature also applies to dubbing animation and highlighting its verbal humor. Therefore, the more the translator/dubbing team is aware of the subtleties of the target language, the more prominent its role can be in achieving this goal. Zootopia (2016) is one of the most successful animations, which in addition to creating attractive and exciting scenes, has a language that, according to many critics of children's films, is also a successful example of children's humor. The popularity and influence of this animation caused scientific groups to take the responsible of translating and dubbing it into Arabic and Persian. In this research, based on the descriptive-analytical method and based on the strategies of humor translation by Magdalena Panek (2009), an attempt is made to comparatively study the strategies of verbal humor translation in Arabic and Persian dubbing of Zootopia. The results show that literal translation in Arabic dubbing (34%) and paraphrasing in Persian dubbing (32%) is the most frequent strategy in translating the humor of the target language. Also, the significant difference between the use of modulation strategy in Arabic dubbing (2%) and Persian dubbing (19%) shows that the Persian translation and dubbing group had more emphasis on harmonizing the structure of animation’s humor with the target culture and language. Therefore, Arabic dubbing has been more successful in localizing humor than its Persian counterpart.

Human is considered as the main agent of the process of literary production. He looks at life, existence, nature and the supernatural and then makes a mental depiction of them in his mind and finally he writes down all the thoughts surrounding such issues in an artistic way. This recording which results in literary production comes to be known as Thought-recording literature. Examples of this literary genre include: scholarly interpretation about reality or unseen phenomena, skepticism, pessimism or optimism, Sufism attitudes, fictional trips, tendency toward nature and attitude toward religion. After fusion of Arabs with other cultures and after migration of a number of literary figures to America, these literary genres were used with new interpretation and formats in such a way that the migrated literary figures brought about significant changes. This study aims at investigating the common and uncommon points used in Thought-recording literature and migrated literature and then how they have been applied.