Relações entre métodos e modalidades na tradução de Neverwhere / Lugar Nenhum de Neil Gaiman

Abstract

This work presents a study on the translation modalities proposed by Aubert (1998) associated with the foreignization and domestication methods proposed by Venuti (1995), seeking to answer which modalities are most commonly used, the relationship between methods and modalities, and whether it is possible to use these modalities to define a predominantly domesticating or foreignizing translation. For this purpose, the fantasy novel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is used. The work tells the journey of an ordinary man whose life is completely changed after helping a wounded young woman in the street. The research analyzes whether the two Brazilian Portuguese translations of the work Neverwhere — one from 2007 and the other from 2016 — lean more towards zero degree (foreignization) or 100 degree (domestication), by selecting excerpts containing cultural elements from the source language, classifying the translation using the modalities, and associating them with the methods. Foreignization brings the reader into the universe of the source text, while domestication draws them closer to the universe of the target text. Among the proposed modalities, those identified in the translations include loan, transposition, literal translation, modulation, explicitation, adaptation, addition, omission and error. The data analysis indicates a minimal tendency in both translations towards domestication, highlighting the productive association between the modalities and the considered methods.