A Representação do Participante “Tradutor/Translator” em Translators Through History e Os Tradutores na História.

Abstract

This article reports on an empirical study drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which sees language as a modeling system of realities. Working at the interface between SFL, Translation Studies (TS) and corpus-based methodologies, it analyzes the volume Translators Through History and its retextualization in Brazilian Portuguese Os Tradutores na História. Patterns regarding the choice of Participants construed through the lexical items “translator/tradutor” were examined both in paratext and text selections. Results showed analogous patterns in paratexts and text (translator and tradutor being construed as Actor, Carrier, Identified, Experiencer and Sayer in a decreasing frequency of occurrence), the sole exception being the non-occurrence of “translator/tradutor” as Participants of Mental Processes (Senser) in the paratext. As regards the patterns in the texts, no relevant differences were found when comparing the textualization and its retextualization.