TRANSLATING METAPHOR IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE: : THE SEARCH OF EQUIVALENTS FOR BOTANO MORPHISMS

• Autor(a) principal: Rebechi, Rozane
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Trindade, Elaine
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi21.4250
• topic: Tradução funcional; botanomorfismo; formação de tradutor; linguística de corpus; convencionalidade

Driven by cultural, historical, etymological and other issues, idiomaticity loses its association with its original referents and takes on a new meaning depending on the context. More than a strategy restricted to literature and advertising, idiomaticity is crucial for efficient communication, and permeates all textual genres. Because they make distinct associations, different languages and cultures rarely share similar metaphors. The aim of this article is to describe a task applied to translator trainers in the search for English equivalents of fruit metaphors in Brazilian Portuguese. Although botanomorphisms are recurrent in both languages, interlinguistically, the relationship between the fruit and its referent is usually different. Using the metaphor (ser um) laranja as an example, we describe how the undergraduates searched for equivalents in English that would render the idiomaticity of the word. To accomplish this task, they looked up the occurrences of metaphors in reference works, translated news articles and general language corpora. The activity not only made it possible to raise conventional equivalents of the metaphor that exemplified the task, but mainly served to indicate the paths that lead to autonomy and conscious choices, paramount for the profession.