A tradução de canções e seus aspectos tradutórios da Língua Portuguesa para Libras

Abstract

This qualitative and exploratory research focuses on the analysis of musical translations from Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), with particular attention to the poetic and visual processes involved in artistic translational performances aimed at Deaf audiences. The study investigates the translational and interpretive decisions that directly influence the reception, aesthetic enjoyment, and sensory experience of Deaf spectators when engaging with translated musical performances. To this end, publicly accessible digital productions were analyzed, considering translations performed by both Deaf and hearing professionals. The research is theoretically grounded in authors who discuss poetry and poetics in signed languages, as well as the artistic and cultural aspects of song translation in bilingual contexts. Based on this foundation, the study seeks to understand how visual elements, imagetic metaphors, and expressive resources are mobilized to recreate, in Libras, the visual sonority and expressiveness inherent to songs originally composed in Portuguese. The main objective is to analyze the translational, visual, and cultural strategies employed by Deaf and hearing interpreters, identifying those that most contribute to the creation of musically translated performances that are both aesthetically refined and culturally accessible to Deaf audiences. Additionally, the study highlights the specific contributions of Deaf translators to musical pieces originally translated by hearing individuals, emphasizing their role in enhancing artistic communication and broadening the intelligibility of the message. The specific objectives include identifying the stages involved in the creation of these translations, characterizing the translational competencies required for such productions, and describing the modes of Deaf participation in the process. The results demonstrate that the dialogue between Deaf and hearing translators significantly enhances the sensory and emotional impact of musical translations into Libras, allowing for greater fidelity to the semantic and poetic nuances of the source text. The presence of Deaf translators also fosters the visual recreation of metaphors and images in ways that align more closely with the imagetic repertoire of the Deaf community, resulting in translations that more faithfully reflect the emotional and semantic subtleties of the lyrical content. By articulating elements of poetic visual aesthetics and recreating sonority through bodily and spatial dimensions, poetic translation in Libras provides a rhythmic and synesthetic sensory experience capable of intensifying the aesthetic enjoyment of Deaf audiences. Therefore, this thesis argues that Deaf protagonism in musical translation processes is essential for the communicative and artistic success of performances in Libras, and that its recognition contributes to the acknowledgment of the visual-poetic dimension of Libras as an authentic form of literary and musical recreation. The study thus reaffirms the importance of a collaborative translational approach, one that is sensitive to the cultural and perceptual particularities of the Deaf audience, as a promising path for advancing translation practices within the arts.