The purification of violence and the translation of fairy tales: a corpus-based study

Cybelle Saffa Soares

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2018v71n3p161

Authors

Cybelle Saffa Soares Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7617-4654

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2018v71n3p161

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the translation of violence, to propose and to analyse the translation strategies of English Fairytales (EFT) to the Portuguese language. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the interface of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CTS) and Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). Klingberg (1986) purification concept adapted as translation strategies proposed by Chesterman (1997). For the alignment and corpus analysis, it is used COPA-TRAD – Parallel Corpus for translation research (Fernandes, L. & Silva, 2014). The analysis revealed that the target text had been translated under the moral and religious motivational factors of the source culture because the literature translated in Brazil still had to comply with the Portuguese requirements for translating for children (Coelho, 1987).

Author Biography

Cybelle Saffa Soares, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Aluna de doutorado do Programa de Pós-graduação em Inglês da UFSC

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