Relações de equivalência português brasileiro-inglês: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This thesis is affiliated to the discipline of Translation Studies (HOLMES, 2000 [1972]) and examines TRANSLATION EQUIVALENCE relations in a group of interlingual versions of a TEXT in order to identify patterns of SEMANTIC (STRATUM OF SEMANTICS) and LEXICOGRAMMATICAL (STRATUM OF LEXICOGRAMMAR) choices as impinged upon by the three VARIABLES OF THE CONTEXT OF SITUATION. Drawing on data collected in an experimental study and the results obtained by Braga (2012), five TEXTS were analyzed: (i) a source text written in Brazilian Portuguese -- an abstract of a doctoral dissertation in the nuclear engineering field; (ii) two translations into English of the source text produced under experimental conditions and selected based on their having ranked first in an assessment by an expert committee; (iii) a translation into English of the source text produced by the author of the doctoral dissertation and published as a thesis abstract; (iv) a second version in English of the source text produced by the author of the doctoral dissertation and published as an abstract to an article in a peer reviewed scientific journal. Each TEXT was segmented into CLAUSES, which were manually annotated with systemic-functional grammar categories (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014). The annotated categories were computed using R (R CORE TEAM, 2015) in order to obtain frequency of occurrences that could point to the METAFUNCTIONAL PROFILE for each TEXT. Cluster analysis was used to examine the degree of similarity between the source and target texts and among the target texts themselves. In terms of the discipline of Corpora Analysis, the corpus analyzed is considered to be a small one (SARDINHA, 2004), which was explored in a semi-automatic way (MATTHIESSEN, 2009). Results allowed for characterizing the environment in which approximation and distance among the TEXTS were established. This configuration has proved to be a dynamic one, since it has changed in so far as different SEMANTIC (FIGUEREDO, 2015) and LEXICOGRAMMATICAL SYSTEMS (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) have been taken into account along the analysis. Results also allowed to evaluate the impact the CONTEXT OF SITUATION and the META-CONTEXT in which TEXTS were produced exerted on approximation and distance relations established among the TEXTS. Groupings of TEXTS formed on the basis of the VARIABLES OF THE CONTEXT OF SITUATION (HALLIDAY, 1978; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and on the VARIABLES OF THE META-CONTEXT OF TRANSLATION (MATTHIESSEN, 2001) were partly consistent with groupings of TEXTS formed considering the SEMANTIC and LEXICOGRAMMATICAL SYSTEMS selected to serve as a basis for the analysis.