Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2018 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Witt, Beatrice Vieira dos Santos
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| Orientador(a): |
Ibaños, Ana Maria Tramunt
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| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Dissertação
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
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| Departamento: |
Escola de Humanidades
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| País: |
Brasil
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| Palavras-chave em Português: |
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8041
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Resumo: |
This dissertation aims to study the translation and adaptation of jokes, puns and wordplays from American English to Brazilian Portuguese and analyze them based on Relevance Theory. This theory is about the cognitive aspect of interpretation and understanding of propositions from a sender by a receiver, through pragmatic and semantic processes. It was proposed for the first time by Sperber and Wilson in 1986 and it is based on the pragmatic theories developed by Grice (1989), which states that most human communication is the expression and the recognition of the intentions. Also, in addition to the Relevance Theory, other theories were also considered about humor, what expectation it creates in the listener, and theories about how the translator can reach this expectation in the process of translating into another language and adapting to another culture – to the point of generating a similar effect on the receiver. The objects of this study were selected from humorous animated and live-action series and its translated and adapted versions. Examples of successful jokes, puns and humorous speech were selected as well as unsuccessful one (they fulfilled or not the expectation of reaching the desired meaning when they were translated and adapted to expressions or equivalent jokes in the target language). The ones which were considered as not successful lost the funniness or made no sense in Portuguese because of the lack of knowledge about the culture or the English language aspects by the target-language audience. The first step of this analysis was to compare the orally spoken text by the characters of four American series, two animated and two with actors, in the original English version in its version dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese. After that, the texts were analyzed and transcribed under the principles of Relevance Theory. The results of the analysis indicate that there are several possibilities for translation when the point is to try to maintain the mood of the dialogue, not forgetting that the translated text, to be dubbed, needs to fit the character's speaking time so that his voice does not become desynchronized. Considering these aspects, we could conclude that each case requires a calculation between cost and benefit and that it is not possible to generalize that the adaptive translation is always the most effective when translating a text with the purpose of using it in dubbing, but the adaptive translation is the one that has the most chances to fulfill the objective. Some of the analyzed examples have retained their same potential humor in both original and in translated versions, because they have been adapted not only to equivalent words and expressions in the target language, but also to drastic changes from a US reference to a Brazilian one. Other ones lost their humor and reference when they were translated, since in Brazilian Portuguese it was not possible to make the inference that the original text invites to do. Finally, one of the examples showed that a literal translation can also maintain the humor if it is not tied to something particularly cultural of the United States or to some peculiarity of the English language. |
