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Parallel texts to translate cultural references in last wills and testaments (EN-GAL): A didactic case study
Get PDFCareful consideration of cultural elements is required in the transfer of legal texts within the field of specialized translation, according to Borja (2000, p. 163). The translator faces a set of difficulties not only when finding the suitable equivalences between legal systems, but also when mediating between cultures. Last wills constitute a type of legal text that is subjected to a fixed macrostructure (Alcaraz et al., 2006, p. 371) frequently bestrewed with cultural elements. This paper presents a practical perspective on translating five culturally-bound elements in a last will and testament originally drafted in English and translated into Galician by 36 final-year translation students. Furthermore, the proper use of parallel texts will also be dealt with, considering that these ‘authentic texts’ (Nord, 2010, p. 13) provide essential linguistic and cultural information during the translation process. Non-professional translators, undergraduates, in this case, search for and use the parallel texts they need to carry out an in-depth analysis to extract those sections that guide their work (Roiss, 2009, p. 134). Parallel texts were attached to their assignment and later examined to reinforce student’s learning process of legal translation module. The analysis has shown that most students could identify a set of parallel texts, suitable for the transfer of the five cultural items discussed here. By carrying out this practice, students have learnt not only where to find these texts while taking this module but also how to use them as a useful translation tool.Careful consideration of cultural elements is required in the transfer of legal texts within the field of specialized translation, according to Borja (2000, p. 163). The translator faces a set of difficulties not only when finding the suitable equivalences between legal systems, but also when mediating between cultures. Last wills constitute a type of legal text that is subjected to a fixed macrostructure (Alcaraz et al., 2006, p. 371) frequently bestrewed with cultural elements. This paper presents a practical perspective on translating five culturally-bound elements in a last will and testament originally drafted in English and translated into Galician by 36 final-year translation students. Furthermore, the proper use of parallel texts will also be dealt with, considering that these ‘authentic texts’ (Nord, 2010, p. 13) provide essential linguistic and cultural information during the translation process. Non-professional translators, undergraduates, in this case, search for and use the parallel texts they need to carry out an in-depth analysis to extract those sections that guide their work (Roiss, 2009, p. 134). Parallel texts were attached to their assignment and later examined to reinforce student’s learning process of legal translation module. The analysis has shown that most students could identify a set of parallel texts, suitable for the transfer of the five cultural items discussed here. By carrying out this practice, students have learnt not only where to find these texts while taking this module but also how to use them as a useful translation tool
Criaturas de hábito? O que os tradutores costumam fazer com as palavras
Get PDFThis paper focuses on some of the methodological and theoretical challenges presented by the investigation of “sanitization” in translated texts through the analysis of semantic prosody. The main hypothesis is that target texts tend to use toned down vocabulary compared with their sources, and that this results in the creation of a “sanitised version of the original”.
Este artigo foca em alguns dos desafios metodológicos e teóricos apresentados pela investigação da “higienização” em textos traduzidos por meio da análise da prosódia semântica. A hipótese principal é a de que os textos meta tendem a utilizar um vocabulário atenuado em comparação com os textos fonte e isto resulta na criação de uma “versão higienizada do original”.
Audiovisual translation, gender, and multilingualism: Godless or the return to a stereotyped feminist Western
Get PDFThe global phenomenon of multilingualism is increasingly common in film productions and television series, which often feature characters from different geographical and linguistic contexts. Until recently, women in such series were relegated to the background and their characters defined according to stereotyped gender roles. However, with gender roles beginning to shift at the turn of the millennium, it is worth studying if this change has steered the entertainment industry in a new direction. In this paper, we analyze the mini-series Godless (Frank, 2017), which at the time of release was advertised as a seven-episode feminist Western set in La Belle, New Mexico, a town populated mostly by widows after the collapse of the mine where the local men used to work. The premise of the series, which at first glance seemed to represent a clear departure from the stereotypes of the traditional American Western, is nonetheless not completely fulfilled. Although the female characters are featured prominently and show a clear development, they do not always break away from stereotypes, as the audience might expect. In this article we will analyze some of these female characters in order to determine whether they in fact portray a new style of woman or if, conversely, they perpetuate old clichés while disguising them as modernity. Moreover, questions pertaining to the depiction of multilingualism in the series are explored. Given that the linguistic hegemony of English in the series is challenged through the presence of two authentic third languages, namely Paiute and German, it is worth examining how this multilingual identity has been transferred in the Spanish version in order to confirm if it is maintained or lost and whether, overall, it perpetuates identity stereotypes
El papel de la idiomaticidad fraseológica en la formación de traductores
Get PDFLa idiomaticidad, en materia fraseológica, es un rasgo que suele ir representado junto al concepto de motivación y se explica según el tipo de unidad fraseológica (UF) o de los constituyentes que la forman. La motivación, por su parte, se vincula a los procesos cognitivos existentes entre significado literal (SL) y significado figurado (SF) de la UF en cuestión. Partiendo de estas premisas, en el presente estudio se hace referencia al componente idiomático presente en la traducción fraseológica y se propone como objetivo determinarlo mediante un ejercicio de traducción de locuciones idiomáticas (L) destinado a estudiantes rusos, de cara a examinar el grado de idiomaticidad y motivación de las UF. Asimismo, se hace hincapié en la importancia de estas propiedades en la formación de traductores e intérpretes, así como en la adquisición fraseológica de estas unidades idiomáticas para una mayor competencia y destreza lingüística en general
Institutional translation in Oman: An investigation of social, technical, and organisational factors
Get PDFTranslation outside the context of Language Service Providers (LSPs) represents a sizeable share of the translation market. However, this facet of the activity remains less visible and less open to monitoring. This study investigates translation as a situated practice in the context of Oman within institutions where the translation activity does not represent a primary purpose. Adopting a quantitative approach, the study employed an online survey to investigate indicators of the institutionalization of translation, such as resourcing, working conditions, distribution of work, interaction, workflows, and quality management policies. The findings show that translation activities within institutions in Oman are thriving. However, the study revealed that translation practices are subject to considerable variation and that, despite notable exceptions, translation is frequently affected by challenges related to inadequate staffing, resources, and quality assurance procedures. These practices are mainly ad hoc, providing little evidence that translation needs are treated as an integral part of the institution’s functioning. These findings align with observations in other contexts and underscore the need to recognise the significant role translation plays in the functioning of the institution and the need to effectively integrate translation activities within their institutional environments to enhance quality standards in this often-overlooked segment of the translation industry. More generally, the findings confirm the necessity for Translation Studies to appreciate the significance of institutional translation as a facet of translation as a situated activity
Circum-navegações transtextuais e culturais
Get PDFApresentação do número especial com trabalhos apresentados no X Congresso da Associação Ibérica de Estudos da Tradução e Interpretação (AIETI)
Intercâmbios finisseculares: o português entre norma e tradução
Get PDFThe 19 articles in this special issue of Cadernos de Tradução, which aim to account for these transformations from different angles, are framed in thematic axes that encompass translation studies and genetic studies, the transcription of correspondences and the linguistics of corpora, metalinguistic reflection and language didactics, grammaticography and lexicography. In the first, substantial section, composed of eight articles, the focus is on translation in different aspects – figures of translators and their practices, editorial paths of translations that were (or were not) published, historical overviews – and on the presentation of significant correspondences from the point of view of translation studies and genetic studies. [...] The three articles in the second section are located at the intersection between the linguistics of corpora and grammaticography. [...] In the third section, composed of three articles, the authors' interest focuses on metalinguistic reflection, particularly on the relations between national identity and the language of the nation in Brazil in the second half of the 19th century.Os 19 artigos reunidos neste número especial de Cadernos de Tradução, que pretendem dar conta dessas transformações a partir de diferentes ângulos, enquadram-se em eixos temáticos que abraçam os estudos de tradução e os estudos genéticos, a transcrição de correspondências e a linguística dos corpora, a reflexão metalinguística e a didática das línguas, a gramaticografia e a lexicografia. Na primeira, consistente secção, composta por oito artigos, o foco se concentra na tradução em diferentes vertentes – figuras de tradutores e as suas práticas, percursos editoriais de traduções que chegaram (ou não) a ser publicadas, panoramas históricos – e na apresentação de correspondências significativas do ponto de vista dos estudos de tradução e dos estudos genéticos. [...] Os três artigos da segunda secção colocam-se no cruzamento entre a linguística dos corporae a gramaticografia. [...] Na terceira secção, composta por três artigos, o interesse dos autores concentra-se na reflexão metalinguística, em particular à volta das relações entre identidade nacional e língua da nação noBrasil da segunda metade do século XIX
As missões religiosas e a visão europeizada da Amazônia: tradução comentada de Un missionaire chez les sauvages de l’Araguaya au Brésil
Get PDFIn this paper, we intend to present the commented translation, from French to Portuguese, of the chapter XII of the biographic book A missionary among the savages from Araguaia (1906), by the priest Étienne Gallais. In order to do so, we propose to point out and demonstrate our translating process through some comments, so that we can explicit the translating choices and their implications on the target-text. In this study, we had, as theoretical bases, works by male and female authors that run through the translation and the relation among cultures, such as: Antoine Berman (1989;1990;1991), Torres (2011; 2017) and Abes (2023). We equally resort to the reflections andhistoriographic researches by Cunha (1992), Pic (2014) and Gondim (1994).No presente trabalho, tem-se como objetivo apresentar a tradução comentada do francês para o português do capítulo XII do livro de cunho biográfico: Um missionário entre os selvagens do Araguaia (1906), do padre Étienne Gallais. Para tanto, propomos apontar e demonstrar nosso processo tradutório através de comentários, a fim de explicitar as escolhas tradutórias e suas implicações no texto-alvo. Para tal estudo, utilizamos como base teórica, obras de autoras e autores que tratam da tradução e da relação entre culturas, tais como: Antoine Berman (1989;1990;1991), Torres (2011; 2017) e Abes (2023). Nos debruçamos de igual modo nas reflexões e pesquisas historiográficas de Cunha (1992), Pic (2014) e Gondim (1994)
Um missionário entre os selvagens do Araguaia, no Brasil: o Padre Vilanova, da Ordem dos Pregadores
Get PDFTranslation of chapter XII of the book Un Missionnaire chez les sauvages de l'Araguaya, au Brésil: le P. Gil Vilanova, des Frères Prêcheurs (1906) by Étienne GallaisTradução do capítulo XII do livro Un Missionnaire chez les sauvages de l'Araguaya, au Brésil: le P. Gil Vilanova, des Frères Prêcheurs (1906) de Étienne Gallai
Indígenas da Amazônia venezuelana: vida e cultura e o processo tradutório
Get PDFThis article is a reflective presentation of the translation process of the text Vidas Indianas, published by the Venezuelan Martín Matos Arvelo in 1912. The work recounts the lives of the indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon, from the upper Rio Negro, covering different aspects of their daily lives and customs. For the translation, which is still unpublished in Brazil, some chapters of the work - I. Daily life, II. Birth and education, XI. Customs and XII. Customs - continued - were chosen because they represent fundamental aspects for a first approach to the groups portrayed. We begin by introducing the author and the work, describing in greater detail the context in which it was published, as well as other texts by the poet. Next, we discuss each of the chapters selected for translation, briefly detailing their contexts, as well as the images that accompany the translated volume and aspects of the author's language. In the third part of the article, the translation process is described, highlighting aspects that were considered more challenging, such as the choice of terminology and the treatment of paratexts, as well as the sources used to arrive at the final translation result.O presente artigo trata da apresentação reflexiva do processo tradutório do texto Vidas Indianas, publicado pelo venezuelano Martín Matos Arvelo em 1912. A obra narra a vida de povos indígenas da Amazônia venezuelana, do alto do Rio Negro, abordando diferentes aspectos de sua vida cotidiana e costumes. Para a tradução, ainda inédita no Brasil, foram escolhidos alguns capítulos da obra - I. Vida diária, II. Nascimento e educação, XI. Costumes e XII. Costumes - continuação -, escolhidas por representarem aspectos fundamentais para uma primeira aproximação com os grupos retratados. Dessa forma, iniciamos com a apresentação do autor e da obra, descrevendo em maiores detalhes seu contexto de publicação, assim como outros textos do poeta. Em seguida, dissertamos sobre cada um dos capítulos selecionados para a tradução, detalhando brevemente seus contextos, assim como as imagens que acompanham o volume traduzido e aspectos da linguagem do autor. Na terceira parte do artigo, o processo tradutório é descrito, levantando aspectos que foram considerados mais desafiadores, como a escolha de terminologia e o tratamento dos paratextos, assim como as fontes utilizadas para se chegar ao resultado final da tradução