TRADUÇÕES COMENTADAS EM CURSOS DE TRADUÇÃO NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE SOB O VIÉS DA PATRONAGEM

Abstract

This monograph is a Translation Studies' research. The origin of this field dates back to the presentation given by Holmes in 1972, which is entitled "The Name and Nature of Translation Studies" (1972; 1988). During the following decades, the Translation Studies field would pass through an ongoing process of development, both worldwide (BASSNETT, 2002; BARBOSA, 2009) and in Brazil (MILTON, 2014). Such process brought about the creation of Bachelor courses in Translation at the Federal University of Paraíba and the Federal University of Uberlândia (DANTAS et al. 2013), as well as specialized post-graduate courses in several Brazilian colleges (RODRIGUES, 2017). The development of such field of research, caused the emergence of a literary-academic genre with specific features (TORRES, 2017): commented translations (ZAVAGLIA et al. 2015). Based on a systemic conception (STEINER, 1984) and making use of the patronage concept (LEFEVERE, 1995[2007]), this research analyzed a corpus of one-hundred-thirteen commented translations — presented as monographs, master thesis and PhD dissertations. This corpus was compiled from Translation Bachelor courses database, which are the Federal University of Paraíba and the Federal University of Uberlândia, as well as the following postgraduate courses: PGET, POSTRAD, TRADUSP and POET. By analyzing the data collected, patterns related to the translators/researches' choices came up. Such patterns were related to textual genres, the languages that were used and source-texts' linguistic systems. The results presented a hegemony of the English language, which was the most translated language of the corpus, in addition to the predominance of European linguistic systems. The same was not verified with African, Asian and Amerindian linguistic systems. These results are similar to the Brazilian editorial market with regards to translations (REIMÃO, 2011). Concerning to the most translated genres, the data showed the predominance of literary ones, especially poem and short story; the same did not occur with regards to non-literary genres. This result may be attributed not only to translators-researches autonomy, but also to a propensity of Translation Studies to instigate researches and literary translations (AIXELÁ, 2004; PIMEMTEL, 2017). The data may also be attributed to a notion that the translation of poems would involve a higher status as well as a greater complexity with regards to prose. (BASSNETT, 2002).