"˜MI DE MIGUEL"™ E "˜À FRANCESA"™: UMA ANÁLISE DA TRADUÇÃO DE JOGOS DE PALAVRAS COM O AUXÍLIO DA LINGUÍSTICA DE CORPUS

Nilson Roberto Barros da Silva

Authors

Nilson Roberto Barros da Silva

Keywords:

Translation, Wordplays, Corpus Linguistics

Abstract

This paper discusses the translation of wordplays (JPs) in the PortugueseEnglish direction, more specifically the JPs 'Mi de Miguel' and 'À francesa', which are part of the novel 'O xangô de Baker Street' (SOARES, 1995). The article derives from our doctoral thesis, and aims to analyze the translation of the JPs cited in the English language. The study uses the theoretical-methodological approach of Corpus Linguistics (CL) to select the JPs as data to be analyzed in the research and it is classified as corpus driven (TOGNINIBONELLI, 2001). The analysis is based on the JP translation strategies presented by Delabastita (1996) and, as a result, it verifies that the translation strategies used to re-create the JPs in English are compatible with the JP â†’ JP strategy, in which a JP is translated by another in the target language, being allowed differences in terms of formal structure, semantic structure, or textual function.

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Author Biography

Nilson Roberto Barros da Silva

Professor do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras, da Faculdade de Letras e Artes, da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Campus Central. Doutor em Letras pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

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