Uma proposta de tradução comentada de The life and adventures of Santa Claus, de L. Frank Baum

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to present a linguistic-cultural analysis of the translation of names (whether common or proper, toponyms or anthroponyms) of the novel The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902), by L. Frank Baum, to Brazilian Portuguese. Our main objective, however, was to reconcile the translation of names with the particular characteristics of Children's Literature, such as playfulness and wordplay. For the cultural analysis of the literature, we used the works of Thomson-Wohlgemuth (1998), Fernandes and Queiroga (2016) and Azenha Júnior (2005). With regard to the analysis of names, we take as a base the list of technical procedures proposed by Fernandes (2016): rendition, copy, transcription, substitution, recreation, transposition, addition, deletion, phonological replacement, and conventionality. It was found that the translator needs to use both the creativity and the acquired academic knowledge to be able to recreate these words, making them sound natural to the children's ears and, at the same time, resemble the original meaning.