Intersemiotic translation of literature for children and youth: experiences in classroom

Abstract

In recent years, there was growth of children's literature and great incentive to bilingual education for deaf providing the opening for the translation of works in Portuguese language to Brazilian sign language. As a direct consequence of this phenomenon, significant change in the understanding of how to translate multimodal materials. For this reason, the main goal of this article is to discuss/analyze episodes (video-recorded) which focused on the mediation of the teacher-researcher in translation work contexts of the students , in intention to verify what are the changes in the construction of the meanings  in texts presented in these materials, according to the directions of Discourse Analysis (BAKHTIN, 1999). It is suggested that these activities may be carried out with translation students, in such a way that they enable students, while they translate multimodal text, to become aware of the complexity and specificity of the linguistic and discoursive choices involved in the process of translation.