Canções / Songs: Fernando Pessoa traduz António Botto

Dissertação apresentada com vista à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Tradução e Interpretação Especializada. Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portaria nº 602/2003 de 21 Julho)

Domesticated domesticated! Some comments on the translation into English of José Carlos Somoza's La Caverna de las ideas

In order to cater for an extended readership, crime fiction, like most popular genres, is based on the repetition of a formula allowing for the reader's immediate identification. This first domestication is followed, at the time of its translation, by a second process, which wipes out those characteristics of the source text that may come into conflict with the dominant values of the target culture. An analysis of the textual and paratextual strategies used in the English translation of José Carlos Somoza's La caverna de las ideas (2000) shows the efforts to make the novel more easily marketable in the English-speaking world through the elimination of most of the obstacles to easy readability.

Overproduction of the english definitive article by portuguese learners: a cross-sectional study

The English article system is actually so complex that it presents many challenges for most non-native learners of English. The main difficulty of Portuguese learners, despite the numerous similarities between the two article systems, is noticeable in a marked tendency to produce the definite article where native speakers of English would not use it. This article reports the results of a cross-sectional study which examined the English definite article overproduction by a group of 12 Portuguese EFL learners with at least seven years of English instruction. The prediction is that these learners will exhibit evidence of transferring L1 features to their interlanguage when they overuse the definite article. The data were collected by means of a gap-filling task and a composition. The results found, as predicted, that these learners overused the in generic contexts. It is argued that this overuse is directly tied to and can be explained by transfer to somewhere and conceptual transfer principles.

Sagrada melancolia

Pretende-se, com este Trabalho de Projecto, incitar a essa discussão o que acontece no que concerne à tradução de poesia, neste caso através da realização de uma tradução para a língua Inglesa da obra Sagrada Melancolia, de Sérgio Pereira. Mediante a discussão patente sobre a traduzibilidade da poesia, será esta impossível? Intraduzível? E, se possível, através de que metodologias, teorias e respectivas opções tradutivas? Para o presente Trabalho de Projecto foram consideradas e aplicadas as teorias de tradutores, linguistas e poetas, como John Dryden, Alexander Tytler, Eugène Nida, Roman Jakobson, Jean Paul Vinay e Jean Paul Darbelnet, Juliane House e Peter Newmark. Sendo a Poesia uma forma de Arte, a sua tradução será também Arte? Considera-se sugerir à editora a publicação da obra traduzida. Faz, também, parte deste Trabalho de Projecto a intenção de Localizar o blog Sagrada Melancolia para as línguas Inglesa, Francesa e Espanhola, em colaboração com o autor, Sérgio Pereira.