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Vol. 12:1 (2000) ► pp. 31–62

The Negotiation of Literary Dialogue in Translation

Forms of Address in Robinson Crusoe Translated into Portuguese [1] 1

| Universidade de Lisboa
Focussing on the pragmatic dimension of literary dialogue in narrative fiction, this paper analyses: (a) the negotiation of power carried out by characters and the way it is relayed in the text as signalled by forms of address; and (b) the negotiation performed by the translator in order to reproduce a power relation when dealing with the cultural and social environments of the source- and the target-language texts. By analysing one hundred years of Robinson Crusoe translated into European Portuguese (189– to 1992) the paper will attempt to reveal a possible historical development of translational norms and the way in which the historical, cultural and social environments may have influenced them.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1.Taken-for-Granteds
  • 2.Choice of Corpus
  • 3.Problems in Studying the Translation of Forms of Address
  • 4.The Brown and Gilman Model
  • 5.Brief Outline of Modes of Address in Modern English and Modern Portuguese
    • 5.1.The Modern English System of Modes of Address
    • 5.2.Evolution of Pronominal Forms of Address in English
    • 5.3.The Modern European Portuguese System of Modes of Address
    • 5.4.Evolution of Pronominal Forms of Address in European Portuguese
    • 5.5.Brief Historical Background: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Portugal
  • 6.Hypothesis for the Analysis of the Translation of Forms of Address
  • 7.Results of the Analysis
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 September 2000
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.12.1.03ass
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