Procedimentos técnicos da tradução em O Conto da Aia

Abstract

This work proposes a descriptive analysis of the use of the translation procedures by Barbosa (1990), presented in her book Procedimentos Técnicos da Tradução, in the translation of Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, translated to portuguese by Ana Deiró and entitled O Conto da Aia. A total of thirty examples were taken from the book to be analyzed, with no chapters or pages delimitations. The identified procedures during the analysis were: transference in the form of foreign words, literal translation, omission and explicitation, transposition, explanation, modulation, and equivalence. It was found that the procedure with the highest frequency was transposition, followed by equivalence, while modulation, explanation and literal translation were the least frequent, with only one example each. After this analysis, a conection between Barbosa's procedures and Venuti's (1995) concepts of foreignization and domestication was set, with an ilustration of a scaled line with two opposite spots named foreignizing and domesticating translation. All identified technical procedures were positioned on this line, according to their tendency to foreignize or domesticate the translation. After the proper analyses, the use of procedures that can both foreignize and domesticate a translation were spotted, thus mixing Venuti's (1995) two concepts within the same work. It shows that it's possible to use a foreignizing and a domesticating translation, without compromising the work.