Modal adjuncts in the short story 'Grace', by Joyce, and in two of its translations into Brazilian Portuguese

Authors

  • Roberta Rego Rodrigues Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v24i49.34081

Keywords:

interlingual reinstantiation, modal adjuncts, short stories.

Abstract

Modal adjuncts belong to interpersonal metafunction (HALLIDAY, 1994). They can point to the narrator’s and the characters’ evaluation in literary texts. This paper aims to delve into these categories in the short story Grace (JOYCE, 2001) and in two of its interlingual reinstantiations into Brazilian Portuguese, one by José Roberto O’Shea (JOYCE, 2012), and the other one by Guilherme da Silva Braga (JOYCE, 2013). Modal adjuncts of the short stories were annotated by using CROSF (FEITOSA, 2006), and quantified on WordSmith Tools (version 6.0). The results point out that the source text has more modal adjuncts if compared to the translations. In addition, they show that mood adjuncts are more frequent than comment adjuncts in the corpus. It can be noticed that the translators use their translational creativity when they propose alternative translations to modal adjuncts.

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Author Biography

  • Roberta Rego Rodrigues, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)

    Licenciada em língua inglesa (2003) pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pela mesma instituição, obteve o mestrado (2005), o doutorado (2010) e o pós-doutorado (2019) em Linguística Aplicada direcionada aos Estudos da Tradução. O artigo publicado na Revista Gragoatá é um dos frutos de sua pesquisa pós-doutoral. É professora associada de Tradução da Universidade Federal de Pelotas dos pares de línguas inglês/português/inglês. Coordena o projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Estilística de textos literários em relação de tradução” desde 2017, no qual se destaca o artigo “The realisation of finite ‘shall’ in the short story ‘The yellow wallpaper’ and its counterparts in two of its translations into Portuguese”, publicado em 2018.

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Published

2019-08-27

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 49 (2019): Translations and their alternatives: between craft and art

Section

Literature Articles

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Modal adjuncts in the short story ’Grace’, by Joyce, and in two of its translations into Brazilian Portuguese. (2019). Gragoatá, 24(49), 513-535. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v24i49.34081