TRADUZIR METÁFORA NÃO É MAMÃO COM AÇÚCAR: A BUSCA POR EQUIVALENTES DE BOTANOMORFISMOS

Rozane Rebechi; Elaine Trindade

doi:10.34630/polissema.vi21.4250

Authors

Rozane Rebechi Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1878-7548
Elaine Trindade Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3427-6403

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi21.4250

Keywords:

Tradução funcional, botanomorfismo, formação de tradutor, linguística de corpus, convencionalidade

Abstract

Driven by cultural, historical, etymological and other issues, idiomaticity loses its association with its original referents and takes on a new meaning depending on the context. More than a strategy restricted to literature and advertising, idiomaticity is crucial for efficient communication, and permeates all textual genres. Because they make distinct associations, different languages and cultures rarely share similar metaphors. The aim of this article is to describe a task applied to translator trainers in the search for English equivalents of fruit metaphors in Brazilian Portuguese. Although botanomorphisms are recurrent in both languages, interlinguistically, the relationship between the fruit and its referent is usually different. Using the metaphor (ser um) laranja as an example, we describe how the undergraduates searched for equivalents in English that would render the idiomaticity of the word. To accomplish this task, they looked up the occurrences of metaphors in reference works, translated news articles and general language corpora. The activity not only made it possible to raise conventional equivalents of the metaphor that exemplified the task, but mainly served to indicate the paths that lead to autonomy and conscious choices, paramount for the profession.

Author Biography

Rozane Rebechi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

PhD (2015) and Master (2010) in English Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). She specialized (lato sensu) in Translation (2007) from the same institution. She has a degree in Languages-Translator and Interpreter from the Faculdade Ibero-Americana (1991). She teaches English language and translation, and her main areas of interest are: Corpus Linguistics, Terminology and Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Since 2016, she has been a professor at the Department of Languages of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She is a member of the Board of EM TTI (European Masters in Technology for Translation and Interpreting) and chair of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Translation (ABRAPT). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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TRANSLATING METAPHOR IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE:

THE SEARCH OF EQUIVALENTS FOR BOTANO MORPHISMS

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