The translator’s decisions and the expression of focus in two translations into Spanish of a Brazilian short story

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i14p226-249

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translation, Spanish, parallel corpus, focus, Pragmatics

Abstract

The study compares two translations into Spanish of the short-story “El globo fantasma”, by the Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca. Specifically, discrepancies in word order concerning the expression of the pragmatic function focus between the two translations were analyzed. The aim of the paper is exploring the way translators solved the problem of translating a pragmatic element in Portuguese-Spanish translation studies. The framework is Functional Grammar (Dik 1989, 1997). The results show differences in the way syntax-pragmatic interface operates in these languages and also that information focus may occupy different positions in Spanish, according to the translator’s decisions and to discursive regularities of each variety of this language.

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  • Paulo Antonio Pinheiro-Correa, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

    Professor de Língua Espanhola na Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Atua no Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos de Linguagem na mesma instituição. Doutor e mestre em Linguística pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), com pós-doutorado em Filologia pela Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espanha. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem funções pragmáticas em espanhol e português, tradução e aquisição de segundas línguas.

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2017-12-21

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No. 14: (jul-dec) Dossier: Translation teaching and translation learning between Portuguese and Spanish

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PINHEIRO-CORREA, Paulo Antonio. The translator’s decisions and the expression of focus in two translations into Spanish of a Brazilian short story. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 14, p. 226–249, 2017. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i14p226-249. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/caracol/article/view/131692.. Acesso em: 14 may. 2024.