Culture and translation: the case of English and Persian languages

Mahmoud Afrouz

doi:10.5007/2175-7968.2022.e80896

Autores

Mahmoud Afrouz Assistant Professor (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-4769

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2022.e80896

Palavras-chave:

Língua, Cultura, Tradução, Equivalente Descritivo, Notas

Resumo

A tradução não é apenas uma questão de linguística. O objetivo principal do presente artigo é investigar a relação entre “cultura” e “tradução”. Para tanto, a pesquisadora utilizou um corpus das línguas inglesa e persa. Os resultados indicaram que, embora diferentes idiomas, como inglês e persa, empreguem formas linguísticas diferentes, essa variedade não pode ser considerada um verdadeiro desafio. Uma vez que durante o processo de tradução, o conteúdo do texto fonte (ou seja, a forma) geralmente sofre uma espécie de mudança lexical, fonológica, grafológica e gramatical, e o conteúdo do texto fonte (ou seja, o significado) é logicamente necessário para ser mantido constante, compreensão precisa do significado do ST e a tradução natural em TL depende do profundo conhecimento do tradutor com as culturas TL e SL. O recurso a um equivalente descritivo ou a utilização de notas explicativas seria de grande ajuda para uma interpretação precisa e, consequentemente, levaria a uma compreensão profunda e clara do TT por parte dos públicos-alvo.

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