As onomatopeias do primeiro capítulo do mangá Vagabond traduzidas para o português brasileiro e para o inglês norte-americano

Abstract

Vagabond is the manga written by Takehiko Inoue, published in 1999, based on the novel Musashi written by Eiji Yoshikawa, published in chapters, in 1935. It was inspired on the adventures and battles of one of the most famous samurais of the Tokugawa Japanese shogunate, Miyamoto Musashi. The manga Vagabond is full of action and its onomatopoeias, side by side with the image, help to draw up its narrative the movement and dynamics needed. The first chapter of the first volume of this manga was chosen for this study, translated to Brazilian Portuguese by Dirce Miyamura, and to American English by Yuji Oniki. As it is composed with a great quantity of onomatopoeias inside and outside balloons, with 221 collected occurrences for this analysis, this chapter shows itself, beyond its quantity, complex for translators to find translational solutions. The onomatopoeias can sometimes be subjectively interpreted, and usually have a secondary status of investigation in Linguistics (AZARI; SHARIFIFAR, 2017). Thus, this study seeks to identify and analyze the onomatopoeic phenomena found in this first chapter using related theories, the Descriptive Translations Studies, and taking the original material, written in Japanese, as reference, comparing it with the translated materials to Brazil and to the North American Anglophones countries. The results show differences between the analyzed translations, being the creation of onomatopoeias a frequent translation strategy applied in the Brazilian translation, and omission of this linguistic resource the most common translation strategy applied in the North American translation.