A tradução como um ‘acordo dialógico’: uma perspectiva bakhtiniana

Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Jr.

doi:10.5007/2175-7968.2018v38n3p549

Authors

Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Jr. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-449X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2018v38n3p549

Abstract

Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1895-1975) theory of dialogism offers an open-ended potential for a creative translatability of cultures. By enabling a translator to incorporate the cultural traces of both the source culture and the target culture, dialogism provides an outlet to the dilemma between loyalty and freedom that has bothered translation studies for years. A Bakhtinian theory for translation interweaves “living dialogic threads” between the source-culture and the target-culture to create an ambience of open-endedness. This paper explores the various meanings of the term “dialogue” and attempts to show the significance and implications of understanding the activity of translation as dialogic interanimation in the Bakhtinian sense.

Author Biography

Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Jr., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Professor adjunto do Departamento de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas (DLLEM) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) e professor permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem (PPgEL/UFRN). Possui doutorado pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem (PUC-SP).

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