Transferência cultural em tradução: contextualização, desdobramentos, desafios

Abstract

This article deals with some elements related to the notion of “cultural transfer” in translation. In order to draw the borders of a context, the considerations go back to the decade between 1970 and 1980, approximately, a period traditionally reserved by the historiography of Translation Studies for a paradigm change in Translation Studies: the primacy of the text to be translated slowly loses terrain to the reception conditions of the translated text. Such a change, carried out pari passu with other analog evolutions in correlated areas of knowledge, reached translation as a whole. Although more easily identified (and acceptable) in the domain of literary translation, the notion of cultural transfer becomes also a fundamental element in the translation of scientific and technical texts. The present article aims at sensitizing translation students for some features of this question by offering a panorama of the theoretical premises for its treatment in academic works.