A REPRESENTAÇÃO DE PERSONAGENS INFANTIS EM CONTOS DE SAKI E EM SUAS TRADUÇÕES PARA O PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIRO

Abstract

This monographic work presents a study within the Translation Studies, more specifically within the discursive approaches of Translation, as it explores how socio semantic choices construct meanings in texts which have translational relation. The analysis of the relation between original and translated texts emphasizes the differences and similarities between the linguistic systems involved, while it contributes indirectly to a systemic functional description of the Portuguese language. Based on the theory of Representation of Social Actors proposed by van Leeuwen (1997), this study investigates a corpus composed by four short stories of Saki, which are, "The story-teller", "The open window", "Sredni Vashtar" and "The strategist" and their translations to Brazilian Portuguese. In more detail, we analyze in these tales how six children were socially represented. The annotations were made based on van Leeuwen’s socio semantic inventory and the data collection was done manually for both quantitative and qualitative analyzes. The data reveals that the children are represented in the short stories primarily by Personalization, and within this, the boys are mostly Nominated while girls are Physically Identified and Classified by gender and age. This result suggests that Saki’s narrators follow a trend of representing social actors male and female differently, such trend is maintained in the translations.