An exploratory study of representation of gay characters in a parallel corpus of short stories: a systemic-functional approach.

Autores

  • Adail Sebastião Rodrigues Júnior Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Resumo

This exploratory paper focusses its analysis on the system of transitivity of an English/Portuguese parallel corpus of a collection of gay stories first published in 1966 in the United States of America and retextualized more than thirty years later in Brazil. Since this is an ongoing research project, the paper’s main objective is to map out the discursive choices of transitivity in one of the short stories and its translation, in order to reveal how the protagonist is represented in both, as well as to analyse general discursive features in the original and translated corpora as a whole. The analyses carried out suggest that there is a relative frequency of processes that represent human participants acting upon the world and on each other, and parts of the characters’ bodies seen as abstract agents or participants that act upon the world as well. Finally, the paper is expected to serve some of the methodological needs of MA students who approach their research data for the first time.

Biografia do Autor

Adail Sebastião Rodrigues Júnior, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Possui mestrado em Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2002) e doutorado em Lingüística Aplicada pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2006). Atualmente é professor adjunto de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Tem experiência na área de Letras/Linguística Aplicada, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: estudos da tradução, tradução literária, estudos gays, representação, análise do discurso, transitividade, escrita em língua inglesa, etnografia e ensino, e modelo de análise de narrativas.

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Publicado

01-01-2005

Como Citar

Júnior, A. S. R. (2005). An exploratory study of representation of gay characters in a parallel corpus of short stories: a systemic-functional approach. Cadernos De Tradução, 2(16), 83–104. https://doi.org/10.5007/%x