Componentes psicofisiológicos e o desenvolvimento da Competência Tradutória Intermodal à luz da pesquisa narrativa

Abstract

This thesis which aims to shed some light on the possible relation between psychophysiological components and the acquisition of intermodal Translation Competence in Sign Language Translator-Interpreters which now or formerly performed on higher education levels or Conference contexts; (b) the possible influence of the context in which they learned Sign Language on their professional profile; and, (c) possible impacts of the aforementioned elements on their performance, making use of the narratives of eleven translators who meet the profile specified, in order to do so. The research made use of recorded video interviews which were then transcribed to allow each interview to be analysed, comparing what each participant said to move them one way or another with the elements described by the PACTE group as part of the psychophysiological components, reflecting on how they had an impact on the development of the translator competence of the participants as well as how their expertise helped them manage these same aspects that were once so hard for them. The author of the thesis then creates a chart based on PACTE group categories for psychophysiological components in which she organises the data collected from the interviews visually, noticing however, the fluid nature of the interaction between the components and sub-competencies of the translator competence which make them hard to categorise, since multiple aspects of the components or sub-competencies can be found in the same excerpts. The research also points towards a tendency to feelings of inadequacy at first which in time give way to critical and logical reasoning with the participants as a way of perfecting themselves, as well as a tendency to go on focusing on their target audience (deaf people) which make them to grow in confidence of their own skills due to the feedback received by them.