Análise dos idiomatismos culturais na versão das legendas em inglês no filme O auto da compadecida de Guel Arraes

Abstract

Translation is considered a work based on the natural or relative correspondence of words. Thus, cultural interposition is a singularity of the translator's craft, which makes the translation, in the face of linguistic diversity, possible and understandable in regards to the original work. In this sense, the object of research in this paper is to analyze the cultural idioms present in the English subtitles of the movie O Auto da Compadecida. To this end, the theoretical framework was based on the studies of Xatara (1998) and Lopes and Langa (2016), who helped define the concept of idioms; and Stella Tagnin (1988), Heloísa Barbosa (1990), and Mona Baker (1992), who discuss translation strategies and modalities. The approach of this research is of the qualitative type, since the objective of this study was to understand the translation choices for idioms through the contextualization of the scenes, and transcription of the characters' dialogues. At the end of this research, it was confirmed the hypothesis that the translation of the expressions did not affect the understanding of the dialogues for the target audience, thus being able to understand the cultural context in which the expressions are inserted