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Section 1 - Introduction
This essay is an investigation into the problems involved in the translating of the text 'Humour Rules' into Polish (see translation in the Appendix) and the use of different strategies to overcome any issues arising from translating the text. The problems analysed will relate to the discourse processing/pragmatic approaches to Translation Studies and its impact on source text comprehension and target text production in translation.

The text used to depict such problems and strategies is 'Humour Rules', by Kate Fox and which appears as chapter "Watching the English. The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour", published by Hodder & Stoughton and already translated into Polish. Fox is a trained Social Anthropologist, a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research, co-director of SIRC (Social Issues Research Centre), and the author of many social science books is well placed to analyse this issue.

Instead of exploring foreign cultures and people inhabiting remote corners of the world, Fox decided to write about what she considers to be the most puzzling tribe of all, which is her native country of England. In her book, she examines what she calls the English national portrait and unravels a fascinating culture governed by a hidden set of rules and codes of behaviour that are present in the population's daily mundane routine, such as the way people talk, work, play, queue, even their jokes.[1]

In this essay we will examine the rules of behaviour established in English society in order to translate them correctly and therefore illuminate Polish people in their understanding of the English culture. Being English is not a matter of birth, race or colour, but instead is a mindset based on behavioural codes and rules which Fox attempted to decipher. This has been done so that the English can re-examine and laugh at themselves but it also can be used for outsiders to understand through humour, in a humorous way, what it means to be English. Although 'Humour Rules' is an anthropological analysis of the English, its unique humorous nature does not translate well into Polish due to numerous reasons, with less flexible grammar being an important one. Another issue is more closely related to culture-specific items in text, including values and sense of humour that may not be perceived similarly by a Polish audience.

This essay will focuses on problems of the value and limitations of different approaches in explaining how translators retrieve and re-create meaning in the process of translation by utilizing the knowledge of pragmatics, especially cross-cultural pragmatics, individual and world knowledge. In the second section key concepts of discourse processing will be outlined in order to establish if they are of any help. The third section encompasses a commentary on any pragmatic problems arising from the translation of Appendix. It is followed by fourth section with commentary on cross-pragmatic issues in translation. Finally, the fifth section explores problems that relate to individual and world knowledge.

Section 2 - Discourse Analysis
Language is used by people to communicate with each other for social interaction or to express cultural identities. Communication and
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