Translating “As Meninas” by Cecília Meireles for Brazilian Sign Language: an annotated translation

• Autor(a) principal: Albres, Neiva de Aquino
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pontos de Interrogação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.uneb.br/index.php/pontosdeint/article/view/v13n1p97
• topic: Tradução comentada; Libras; Cecília Meireles; As meninas; Tradução de poesia; Commented translation; Libras Brazilian Sign Language; Cecília Meireles; As meninas; Poetry translation

The poem “As meninas”- “The gilrs children”, original text for the translation, belongs to the poem collection “Ou isto ou aquilo” – “ Either this or that” (1964) by Cecília Meireles, written in Portuguese. The Libras version was produced by the researchers in the year 2022, applying transcultural translation principles (SOBRAL, 2018) and principles that favor the correspondence of poetic elements (BRITTO, 2015, 2019), as well as translation as a dialogic accord (KUMAR, 2018). We developed a Commented Translation, qualitative research and conceived as a Case Study. The research instrument used was the Translation Diary, in which the recordset: work notes and versions of the translation recordings (autora). The research objective was to analyze the strategies adopted for a translation of the characters’ names – Arabela, Carolina and Maria – and the rhymes built with these names by the author Cecília Meireles. We evaluated the resulting translation consistent with the deaf communities’ culture of sign-name creation (autora), it is identified that extra-linguistic elements directly interfere in the translation process, the verbal-visual dimension of the printed book has an effect on the creation of the characters sign-name. [Received on: March 30, 2023 - Accepted on: June 10, 2023]