Processos, participantes e circunstâncias em Oryx and Crake e em sua tradução para o português brasileiro

Abstract

This thesis addresses the interface between Translation Studies (TS) and Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday, 1994; Thompson, 2014) with a view to analyse a corpus of literary texts. We aimed to investigate the transitivity in Oryx and Crake (Atwood, 2003) and in its translation into Brazilian portuguese, Oryx e Crake (Atwood, 2018), performed by Léa Viveiros de Castro, by carrying out quantitative and qualitative analyses of the categories “processes”, “participants” and “circumstances”. We also aimed to verify the “processes” and “participants” most frequently realized by the characters Oryx, Jimmy/Snowman, and Glenn/Crake, and to examine what these realizations indicate about their representation. We composed our study corpus by compiling semi-random textual portions of the source text (ST) and its corresponding portions of the target text (TT). For the manual annotation of the “processes”, “participants” and “circumstances”, we used CROSF-15, proposed by Feitosa (2006), and the labels were quantified in the software WordSmith Tools 4.0 (Scott, 2007). The most frequent “processes” in the corpus are the material, the mental and the relational ones, the most frequent “participants” are “actors”, “sensers”, and “carriers”, and the most frequent “circumstances” are those of location, manner and accompaniment. Oryx realized “sensers” and “carriers”, Jimmy/Snowman realized “actors” and “sensers”, and Glenn/Crake realized “sayers” and “sensers” when it comes to the highest frequency of “participants” related to these characters in the ST and in the TT. It is possible to ascertain that the transitivity shifts of the characters were minimal. Moreover, Oryx seems to bear a more perceptive nature in the ST and a more thinking nature in the TT, Jimmy/Snowman seems to bear a more “actional” descriptive structure in both texts, and Glenn/Crake seems to be a talkative and eloquent character also in the ST and in the TT.