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ABSTRACT<br />
The aim of this paper is to present a teaching proposal for translating humor. A course on<br />
translation of humor aimed at undergraduate students was organized, using a corpus of 42<br />
Mafalda’s comic strips (Quino, 2003). The objective was to show how people should act<br />
when teaching translation of humor in order to get a comic effect in the target language. The<br />
analysis was based on data given by the students translations, by their reports on these<br />
translations, and by two questionnaires. The results suggested that translation activities which<br />
promote discussion, reflection, critical analysis and re-elaboration, are the best choice when<br />
we want the students to become competent and critical professionals.<br />
Key-words: teaching of translation, translation of humor, humor.
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