La modificació creativa interna de locucions en "Astèrix" i la traducció al català: anàlisi d’alguns exemples [Internal creative modification of idioms in "Asterix" and their translation into Catalan: analysis of selected examples]

This paper focuses on some examples of internal creative modification of idioms and puns and the linguistic resources used in the series "Astérix" in the process of translation into Catalan. The linguistic and cultural idiosyncrasy of idioms makes their translation difficult, especially if they are creatively modified, since the resulting wordplays are source language-specific. Moreover, "Astérix" demonstrates a high level of wordplay and cultural references that are specific for French and France. Translating idioms in a creatively modified way often entails losses in comparison with the source text. Most cases of internal creative modification are either the substitution of a word or a phrase by another one, or the modification of the idiom’s morphosyntactic structure. Resources used for translating idioms into Catalan are equivalence, calque, omission and compensation. By these means, translators try to adapt the source text to the ideal Catalan speaker in order to maintain the humorous effect in the source text.