The art of translating: translations and the debate on grammar, classical languages, european vernaculars, puritas, writing and literate consuetudo in portugal from the 16th to the 18th centuries

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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v15i2.3550

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Translation, Vernacular grammars, Puritas, Literate custom, Scripture

Abstract

This study aims at understanding two opposite translation practices in the Portuguese Empire among the 16th and the 18th centuries: one supported that the good translation should focus on setting exact lexical equivalences between the original and the translated text – obviously it’s necessary to set the limits that the differences between the source and the target languages impose to the translation act itself, and consider what each translator understands by translation word by word -, and the other which established as its task the determination of equipoises between frasical or oracional unities. As we will try to demonstrate over this study, the diverse translation practices implicate very distinct comprehension of the differential value of the source and target languages, considering that in our corpus the source texts where written in Greek and Latin. In the differential value of the source and target languages it is implied another question: that on the grammatical quarrel about the superiority of the classical languages over the modern ones. Here, we will try to solve this specific set of problems.

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Author Biographies

Marcello Moreira, State University of Southwest of Bahia (Uesb/Brazil)

Marcello Moreira holds a PhD in Brazilian Literature from USP (2000) and a PhD in Portuguese (1994) and a PhD from the same University (2000). He is currently a full professor at the State University of Southwest of Bahia. It develops research on the relations between philology and historiographical field, besides another one, with João Adolph Hansen, on the oratory in the Portuguese Empire - centuries XVI and XVII. Won with his book Critica Textualis in Caelum Revocata? A Proposal for the Editing and Study of the Tradition of Gregorio de Matos e Guerra (Edusp, 2011), the Jabuti Prize in the category of "literary criticism", and also the Grand Prize of the Criticism of the Paulista Association of Art Critics (2015) for editing and study of the poetry attributed to Gregório de Matos and Guerra, in coautorship with João Adolfo Hansen.

Milena Pereira Silva, State University of Southwest of Bahia (Uesb/Brazil)

Milena Pereira Silva holds a PhD in Memory: Language and Society from the State University of Southwest of Bahia. Search the relations between memory and historical notes in the epic genre in the literate practices of the Portuguese Empire of the XVIII century.

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2017-12-31

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MOREIRA, M.; SILVA, M. P. The art of translating: translations and the debate on grammar, classical languages, european vernaculars, puritas, writing and literate consuetudo in portugal from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 2, p. 131-152, 2017. DOI: 10.22481/el.v15i2.3550. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/3550. Acesso em: 24 aug. 2024.

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2017): Estudos da Língua(gem) - ISSN: 1982-0534

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