Análise da Tradução Intersemiótica de Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal

Abstract

There are differences between cinematographic and literary languages; each one has its own characteristics when we analyzed them. To understand these differences, .we analyzed Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) from J.K. Rowling; and its translation to the cinema, directed by Chris Columbus. In this analysis, we worked with the first ten chapters from the literary text that covers the introductory part of the story. As tools to this analysis, we used Brito’s (2006) six operations: adição, redução, simplificação, ampliação, deslocamento and transformação propriamente dita. With an abstract of each chapter, we analyze how they were translated to the screen, paying attention to the use of the operations and observing how they were used in the translation process. Seeing the use of the operations and doing a comparative analysis, we find the differences that there are between these two languages. We realized that the definition of intersemiotic translation in the cinematographic language does the job of selecting the relevant parts to the translation with the new proposed materials to the process. Through this study, it was possible to notice that besides the use of these operations, they do not show in an only way. The operations when they are inside the movie context compared to the literary text, they show up together or one happens because of the other. Finally, we can notice that the languages have tendencies; and that the cinematographic language does what the intersemiotic translation requires without losing the linearity and coherence of the story.