“Companheiros e companheiras, Ladies and Gentlemen”: uma análise dos discursos oficiais do ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva na arena internacional

Abstract

This monograph aimed to analyze the insertion of Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the international diplomatic arena taking as a theme to analyze his official speeches. The study was based on the theoretical and analytical tools of Translation Studies and had both a quantitative and qualitative approach. The intersections between political relations, life courses, diplomacy and translation were privileged in this study, considering the specificity in building speech mode of a specific character in the story of Brazil: ex-President Lula. The study emphasizes the relations between translation, conflict and power in order to consider the power relations that constitute the intense diplomatic field by considering the limits and particularities of translation and the translator in this context. It was found that the particularities evidenced in the constitution of the character in the national circulating speeches did not remain in the source text neither in the translated text. A hypothesis to this case is the circulation of these speeches to an international target-public, as in UN, added to the formal rigor and circulation space of the analyzed genre.