A tradução institucional no contexto brasileiro: análise lexicogramatical e semântico-discursiva à luz da linguística sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

Supported by systemic-functional linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, (2014); FIGUEREDO, G. (2011); MARTIN; WHITE (2005)) this paper analyzes three institutional publications issued by three Brazilian companies, Petrobras, JBS e Odebrecht and their respective translation products, to understand how the institutional stance is developed Brazilian Portuguese and in English. The three institutional publications and their respective translation products were divided into sentences, analyzed and classified according to the lexicographic and semantic-discursive variables. Once the results were process with the aid of the R programming environment, dendrograms were generated, presenting the level of similarity between the original texts and the translation products. Afterwards, we verified whether the strategy of formal correspondence or translation equivalence according to Catford (1980) was used. It was verified that formal correspondence was a widely used translation strategy, in fact with several clauses presenting this strategy for all categories analyzed. However, more comprehensive studies on the subject are necessary, for as we have more variables or more complex and extensive clauses, there is also a change of translation strategy from formal correspondence to translation equivalence.