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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8194952
title: VOLTAIRE’S LETTRES PHILOSOPHIQUES IN ENGLISH: THE SEDITIOUS VOICE OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION

description: Abstract This study confronts the English text of Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques (Letters concerning the English Nation), which appeared in 1733, with three modern translations by Ernest Dilworth (1961), Leonard Tancock (1980) and Prudence L. Steiner (2007). The analysis focuses in particular on the thirteenth letter, devoted to John Locke, and the fourteenth letter, which compares Descartes and Newton. Adopting a more incisive voice than the modern versions, the original English translation, attributed to John Lockman, invokes the seditious aspect of Voltaire’s account of Locke’s empiricism and Newton’s cosmology in direct terms. In doing so, the contemporaneous Enlightenment translator reproduces what Berman calls the ‘signifiance’ of the original text as he explicitly emphasises Voltaire’s illocutionary intent. Thanks to its historical simultaneity (“simultanéité historique”, Annie Brisset) the 1733 English text therefore forcefully conveys the message that Voltaire expresses in more reticent censorship-wary terms in the French version. The modern translations, on the other hand, reproduce this more evasive voice and no longer transmit the marks of subversion, which Lockman amplifies defiantly.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8194952.v1
title: VOLTAIRE’S LETTRES PHILOSOPHIQUES IN ENGLISH: THE SEDITIOUS VOICE OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION

description: Abstract This study confronts the English text of Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques (Letters concerning the English Nation), which appeared in 1733, with three modern translations by Ernest Dilworth (1961), Leonard Tancock (1980) and Prudence L. Steiner (2007). The analysis focuses in particular on the thirteenth letter, devoted to John Locke, and the fourteenth letter, which compares Descartes and Newton. Adopting a more incisive voice than the modern versions, the original English translation, attributed to John Lockman, invokes the seditious aspect of Voltaire’s account of Locke’s empiricism and Newton’s cosmology in direct terms. In doing so, the contemporaneous Enlightenment translator reproduces what Berman calls the ‘signifiance’ of the original text as he explicitly emphasises Voltaire’s illocutionary intent. Thanks to its historical simultaneity (“simultanéité historique”, Annie Brisset) the 1733 English text therefore forcefully conveys the message that Voltaire expresses in more reticent censorship-wary terms in the French version. The modern translations, on the other hand, reproduce this more evasive voice and no longer transmit the marks of subversion, which Lockman amplifies defiantly.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8195072
title: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ... ONCE AGAIN THE SAME BOOK BY DOSTOEVSKY: A (CON)TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF EARLY AND RECENT DOSTOEVSKY RETRANSLATIONS INTO DUTCH

description: Abstract During the last 10 to 15 years, the Dutch-language book market has witnessed an increase in the number of Dostoevsky retranslations. Whereas some observers explain this development by referring to the ageing of previous translations, the translators themselves tend to justify their translations by calling them “better translations”. By offering a comparative contextual and textual analysis of early and recent Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch, this article tries to explain the phenomena of retranslation in general and of recent Dostoevsky retranslation into Dutch in particular. It does so by going beyond the popular assumptions, which show close ties to the Retranslation Hypothesis. On the basis of a historical analysis, which shows that the first Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch were more oriented towards acceptability than the first translations, it is argued that the concept of norms, as conceived by Gideon Toury, remains a better tool than the Retranslation Hypothesis to interpret and to explain the phenomenon of the Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch. However, because of translators’ possibilities to go against the norms, which is illustrated through the work of contemporary Dutch translator Hans Boland, norms too fail to provide us with a full explanation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8195072.v1
title: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ... ONCE AGAIN THE SAME BOOK BY DOSTOEVSKY: A (CON)TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF EARLY AND RECENT DOSTOEVSKY RETRANSLATIONS INTO DUTCH

description: Abstract During the last 10 to 15 years, the Dutch-language book market has witnessed an increase in the number of Dostoevsky retranslations. Whereas some observers explain this development by referring to the ageing of previous translations, the translators themselves tend to justify their translations by calling them “better translations”. By offering a comparative contextual and textual analysis of early and recent Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch, this article tries to explain the phenomena of retranslation in general and of recent Dostoevsky retranslation into Dutch in particular. It does so by going beyond the popular assumptions, which show close ties to the Retranslation Hypothesis. On the basis of a historical analysis, which shows that the first Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch were more oriented towards acceptability than the first translations, it is argued that the concept of norms, as conceived by Gideon Toury, remains a better tool than the Retranslation Hypothesis to interpret and to explain the phenomenon of the Dostoevsky retranslations into Dutch. However, because of translators’ possibilities to go against the norms, which is illustrated through the work of contemporary Dutch translator Hans Boland, norms too fail to provide us with a full explanation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9795899
title: TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC TEXTS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES: A CASE STUDY

description: Abstract With the purpose of internationalisation, present-day academic research is being largely published or translated into English. In Brazil, there are several bilingual publications in all academic fields available on SciELO Portal. In areas related to the Human Sciences, the necessity of translating cultural references tends to be more frequent than in the Natural and ‘Hard’ Sciences. Research in the Human Sciences focuses primarily on cultural issues such as beliefs, rituals, behaviours, habits, etc. This article presents a case study of a bilingually published research article on the History of Brazilian slavery. The analysis is based on how Brazilian cultural references are represented in English and the possible effects this may cause in the target text audience. Considering the specificities of academic texts in the Human Sciences, our theoretical framework is based on, on the one hand, Intercultural Studies and, on the other, German Functionalist Translation Theory. Results show the role of the translator in the case of texts in the Human Sciences as an active contributor concerned with his/her international audience.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9795899.v1
title: TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC TEXTS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES: A CASE STUDY

description: Abstract With the purpose of internationalisation, present-day academic research is being largely published or translated into English. In Brazil, there are several bilingual publications in all academic fields available on SciELO Portal. In areas related to the Human Sciences, the necessity of translating cultural references tends to be more frequent than in the Natural and ‘Hard’ Sciences. Research in the Human Sciences focuses primarily on cultural issues such as beliefs, rituals, behaviours, habits, etc. This article presents a case study of a bilingually published research article on the History of Brazilian slavery. The analysis is based on how Brazilian cultural references are represented in English and the possible effects this may cause in the target text audience. Considering the specificities of academic texts in the Human Sciences, our theoretical framework is based on, on the one hand, Intercultural Studies and, on the other, German Functionalist Translation Theory. Results show the role of the translator in the case of texts in the Human Sciences as an active contributor concerned with his/her international audience.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11267591
title: PRESCRIPTIVE, IDEALIZED STANDARD NORM AND ALTERNATIVE USAGE-BASED NORM AND LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY IN TRANSLATED ARTICLES FROM NEW YORK TIMES

description: Abstract This article presents results from a study on hybrid linguistic norms in translated articles from New York Times made available on UOL website. According to Faraco (2008) and Bagno (2012), there is a difference between norma padrão (a prescriptive norm, but not based on usage) and norma culta (an alternative, usage-based norm). The first one combines normative rules that determine correct linguistic forms, but generally hard to follow by most users, while the second one brings together a set of linguistic forms frequently employed by users, because they are more intuitively accessible, although not subscribed by the conservative standard norm (norma padrão) commonly taught in grammar books and in writing style manuals. The research was meant to verify if journalistic texts translated from English have been as permeable to linguistic forms not subscribed by the prescriptive standard norm, as the ones originally written in Portuguese have proven to be.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11265746
title: INVESTIGATING COGNITIVE EFFORT, KNOWLEDGE OF TRANSLATION, AND ASSESSMENT IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE-PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION TASKS

description: Abstract This paper presents the results of an exploratory-experimental study that used eye-tracking, keylogging, free retrospective verbal protocols as well as prospective and satisfaction questionnaires as its main tools for collecting and analyzing data. The theoretical framework builds on different areas, such as empirical-experimental studies with sign languages (Emmorey, Thompson, and Colvin, 2009; Wehrmeyer, 2014) and translation process research (TPR) studies (Jakobsen and Jensen, 2008; Pavlovi? and Jensen, 2009; Hvelplund, 2017, among others), whichare based on concepts and principles of cognitive studies. The results, discussions and analysis corroborate the validity and productivity of themodel of the experimental-exploratory design adopted to address the issues under investigation, as well as to bring relevant contributions to the branches of Translation Studies in which they are inserted and to raise questions for future studies in the area.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11265746.v1
title: INVESTIGATING COGNITIVE EFFORT, KNOWLEDGE OF TRANSLATION, AND ASSESSMENT IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE-PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION TASKS

description: Abstract This paper presents the results of an exploratory-experimental study that used eye-tracking, keylogging, free retrospective verbal protocols as well as prospective and satisfaction questionnaires as its main tools for collecting and analyzing data. The theoretical framework builds on different areas, such as empirical-experimental studies with sign languages (Emmorey, Thompson, and Colvin, 2009; Wehrmeyer, 2014) and translation process research (TPR) studies (Jakobsen and Jensen, 2008; Pavlovi? and Jensen, 2009; Hvelplund, 2017, among others), whichare based on concepts and principles of cognitive studies. The results, discussions and analysis corroborate the validity and productivity of themodel of the experimental-exploratory design adopted to address the issues under investigation, as well as to bring relevant contributions to the branches of Translation Studies in which they are inserted and to raise questions for future studies in the area.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11267591.v1
title: PRESCRIPTIVE, IDEALIZED STANDARD NORM AND ALTERNATIVE USAGE-BASED NORM AND LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY IN TRANSLATED ARTICLES FROM NEW YORK TIMES

description: Abstract This article presents results from a study on hybrid linguistic norms in translated articles from New York Times made available on UOL website. According to Faraco (2008) and Bagno (2012), there is a difference between norma padrão (a prescriptive norm, but not based on usage) and norma culta (an alternative, usage-based norm). The first one combines normative rules that determine correct linguistic forms, but generally hard to follow by most users, while the second one brings together a set of linguistic forms frequently employed by users, because they are more intuitively accessible, although not subscribed by the conservative standard norm (norma padrão) commonly taught in grammar books and in writing style manuals. The research was meant to verify if journalistic texts translated from English have been as permeable to linguistic forms not subscribed by the prescriptive standard norm, as the ones originally written in Portuguese have proven to be.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11267579
title: NEUTRALIZATION AS A STRATEGY TO TRANSLATE THE AFFECTIVENESS OF MICROTALES

description: Abstract This article aims to translate the emotional factor in 16 short stories of Santiago en 100 Palabras by exploring new strategies to produce a semantic-affective translation. Specifically, this research highlights neutralization (Aixelá) as a means to achieve an emotional equivalence in such text typologies. Data collection was carried out by the implementation of a survey to collect the emotions produced in 32 Spanish speakers and 20 English speakers. From this information, a three-step methodology was performed: i) translation proposal, ii) validation, and iii) final editing. The results indicate emotional equivalence was achieved in 81% of the short stories. As to those cases of emotional incongruence, it is considered it may be due to three possible reasons: i) textual typology conventions, and ii) emotional subjectivity. In conclusion, cultural neutralization is considered an appropriate strategy to achieve emotional equivalence between these two languages in the selected corpus.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11267579.v1
title: NEUTRALIZATION AS A STRATEGY TO TRANSLATE THE AFFECTIVENESS OF MICROTALES

description: Abstract This article aims to translate the emotional factor in 16 short stories of Santiago en 100 Palabras by exploring new strategies to produce a semantic-affective translation. Specifically, this research highlights neutralization (Aixelá) as a means to achieve an emotional equivalence in such text typologies. Data collection was carried out by the implementation of a survey to collect the emotions produced in 32 Spanish speakers and 20 English speakers. From this information, a three-step methodology was performed: i) translation proposal, ii) validation, and iii) final editing. The results indicate emotional equivalence was achieved in 81% of the short stories. As to those cases of emotional incongruence, it is considered it may be due to three possible reasons: i) textual typology conventions, and ii) emotional subjectivity. In conclusion, cultural neutralization is considered an appropriate strategy to achieve emotional equivalence between these two languages in the selected corpus.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966178
title: A POETICS OF TRANSLATING IN, TO AND FROM CHINA: A PROPOSAL

description: Abstract In this article we will present and discuss some thoughts on translating in and to China in order to lead us to propose a “poetics of translating in China” and a “poetics of translating the China”. To fulfill this objective, we will provide a brief overview of the historical and philosophical perspectives of Chinese languages and literature in China, as well as the views of Chinese and Brazilian authors, translators and scholars on translating literature to or from China. We will begin our discussion with a contextualization of the need to (re) consider the notions of language, literature, and translation in the time and space and geographical-spaces of Chinese civilization, and then discuss the application of the notions of Chineseness (Yang Lian), Medio-translatology and creative treason (Xie Tianzhen), the parallaxtranslation (Jatobá) and also the Taotie 饕餮 metaphor (Ricardo Portugal), as alternatives to propose a “poetic of translating in. to and from China”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966178.v1
title: A POETICS OF TRANSLATING IN, TO AND FROM CHINA: A PROPOSAL

description: Abstract In this article we will present and discuss some thoughts on translating in and to China in order to lead us to propose a “poetics of translating in China” and a “poetics of translating the China”. To fulfill this objective, we will provide a brief overview of the historical and philosophical perspectives of Chinese languages and literature in China, as well as the views of Chinese and Brazilian authors, translators and scholars on translating literature to or from China. We will begin our discussion with a contextualization of the need to (re) consider the notions of language, literature, and translation in the time and space and geographical-spaces of Chinese civilization, and then discuss the application of the notions of Chineseness (Yang Lian), Medio-translatology and creative treason (Xie Tianzhen), the parallaxtranslation (Jatobá) and also the Taotie 饕餮 metaphor (Ricardo Portugal), as alternatives to propose a “poetic of translating in. to and from China”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966391.v1
title: SIX DARWISHIAN SONNETS

description: Abstract The purpose of this paper is, by presenting a translation to six sonnets written by Mahmoud Darwish in the 1998 book The Stranger’s Bed, to reflect on the question of the Darwishian sonnet(s) against the gesture, or function, of the sonnet. As for language, in presenting the Arabic poems vis-à-vis their Portuguese counterparts, the sonnets will be commented on that which, in Arabic, exhibits linguistic-poetic effects and effectiveness insofar as such sonorous, semantic, formal and discursive schemes can or cannot be rendered in Portuguese, taking into account the linguistic and poetic implications of gender and morphological number, the figures of doubles and the theme of the Two, which is topic, typical to the sonnet qua (textual) genre.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966391
title: SIX DARWISHIAN SONNETS

description: Abstract The purpose of this paper is, by presenting a translation to six sonnets written by Mahmoud Darwish in the 1998 book The Stranger’s Bed, to reflect on the question of the Darwishian sonnet(s) against the gesture, or function, of the sonnet. As for language, in presenting the Arabic poems vis-à-vis their Portuguese counterparts, the sonnets will be commented on that which, in Arabic, exhibits linguistic-poetic effects and effectiveness insofar as such sonorous, semantic, formal and discursive schemes can or cannot be rendered in Portuguese, taking into account the linguistic and poetic implications of gender and morphological number, the figures of doubles and the theme of the Two, which is topic, typical to the sonnet qua (textual) genre.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966232
title: HERBERTO HELDER TRANSLATOR OF NON-EUROPEANS POETICS

description: Abstract The purpose of this article is to reflect on the “poem changed to Portuguese” by the poet Herberto Helder. Many of them are from non-European poetics. From the analysis of some Amerindian poems, we propose to discuss the implications of their choices and how they can be interpreted by contemporary anthropology.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11966232.v1
title: HERBERTO HELDER TRANSLATOR OF NON-EUROPEANS POETICS

description: Abstract The purpose of this article is to reflect on the “poem changed to Portuguese” by the poet Herberto Helder. Many of them are from non-European poetics. From the analysis of some Amerindian poems, we propose to discuss the implications of their choices and how they can be interpreted by contemporary anthropology.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514525
title: ENGLISH WITHOUT BORDERS: A GLANCE AT THE CONTEXT OF PRACTICE THROUGH THE PRISM OF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

description: The English without Borders Program (now Languages without Borders) is a public policy first thought to offer English courses in order to enable Science without Borders eligible students to study in universities abroad. However, in practice, there are a number of other implications or effects, which are visible to all participants, being teachers' development one of them, since most of the teachers are undergraduate students pursuing a teaching degree in English. In this paper, we focus on the Language Center at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where 12 teachers underwent an online survey through Google Forms. The data, albeit integral to a preliminary study, show that the ISF can be regarded as an important stage for teachers' education integrating theory and practice based on concrete experiences.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514525.v1
title: ENGLISH WITHOUT BORDERS: A GLANCE AT THE CONTEXT OF PRACTICE THROUGH THE PRISM OF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

description: The English without Borders Program (now Languages without Borders) is a public policy first thought to offer English courses in order to enable Science without Borders eligible students to study in universities abroad. However, in practice, there are a number of other implications or effects, which are visible to all participants, being teachers' development one of them, since most of the teachers are undergraduate students pursuing a teaching degree in English. In this paper, we focus on the Language Center at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where 12 teachers underwent an online survey through Google Forms. The data, albeit integral to a preliminary study, show that the ISF can be regarded as an important stage for teachers' education integrating theory and practice based on concrete experiences.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517024
title: PEDAGOGICAL RECONTEXTUALIZATION AND POLICIES FOR IN-SERVICE EDUCATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS: A STUDY OF PDE-PR

description: Bernstein's (1990, 2000) theory of pedagogic device is adopted as a theoretical framework for the analysis of representations of an in-service teacher education program as part of a public policy in Brazil. The program has a hybrid format and seeks to integrate theory and practice, by bringing the schoolteacher and his/her practical knowledge closer to the epistemology predominant in the university. Two sets of data were generated: 1) transcripts of the audiorecording of a focus group attended by teacher educators responsible for supervision and teaching activities within the Program; 2) a retrospective narrative of a public school teacher, co-author of this article and former participant of the Program. The representations of trainers on political-pedagogical assumptions and principles of the program showed distributive and recontextualizing rules that contributed to the reproduction of the official discourse. The teacher's narrative, in turn, stresses positive aspects that resulted in learning opportunity for himself. The distributive rules of continuing education and, later, of the curricular organization, governed the pedagogical recontextualization in the school, resulting in transformations of academic knowledge.