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Pa pa pa is a 1980s Chinese novella. It is a work belonging to China’s “root-seeking literature”, which looks into society’s hopeless collapse and chaos. Its author, Han Shaogong, expresses ideas through his imagination and a colloquial language close to readers and full of wordplays/puns. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms of wordplay, the translation techniques adopted and whether the translation keeps the original function of wordplay in the source-language text. As the basis of the definition and categories for the wordplay we used Delabastita (1996) and Hsu (2013), and we also consulted Marco (2010), Wang (2012) and Xu (2013) for contrast; we also used Hurtado Albir’s (2013) translation techniques for analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pun is one of the most important rhetorical devices among languages in the world. Pun's encoding and decoding have a close relationship with, contexts. The influence of linguistic context on pun-decoding lies in the context itself and the style. The influence of cultural context on pun-decoding is strong and extensive. The influence of psychological context on pun-decoding lies in two respects: the psychological association ability of the decoders and the similar psychological states of mind of both the encoders and the decoders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]