Lauro Maia Amorim

• XXXIX Translator's Week: "Translation: cultures, mirroring and refractions", AO.R

• Abstract

  The goal of this project is to analyze the representation of linguistic variation in translated fictional dialogues, with focus on 06 literary translations grouped into three pairs of books, each of them belonging to three different publishers. Such translations have been contrastingly selected according to highbrow literature and best-selling fiction characteristics. This research projec…

  The identities of linguistic variation represented in translations of highbrow literature and of popular best-selling fiction, AP.R

• Abstract

  This ongoing project started as a Master's degree investigation and evolved into a PhD research. We compared three books, one original, La casa de los espíritus, by Chilean author Isabel Allende, and both the Brazilian and English translations. This book is one of the most important novels of the Latin American post-boom, a literary movement that - among other characteristics - gave voice…

  Identity and gender in both Brazilian and American translations of La casa de los espíritus, by Chilean author Isabel Allende, BP.DD

• Abstract

  This research project is based on both Translation Studies and Sociolinguistics applied to translation. Written orality is a linguistic feature that allows the construction of less artificial and more credible dialogues in literary texts (whether translated or not). It represents non stigmatized oral linguistic exchanges, especially because it is derived from diaphasic variation and it is…

  Written orality, educated norm and linguistic hybridity in literary translations and adaptations, BP.IC

• Abstract

  This project aims to discuss the relationship between translation and adaptation, with focus on the mutability of their boundaries. In this context, we seek to investigate the possibility that the labels of "translation" and "adaptation" may be connected in some way with the image construction of the black characters in two adaptations and one translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet …

  The mutability of the boundaries between translation and adaptation and the black identity in rewritings of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, BP.IC

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  In this project, we propose a three-month stay at the University of Warwick (Conventry, UK) under the supervision of Professor Olga Castro, to write a chapter of the dissertation (one chapter out of five) that will focus on Feminist Translation Studies. To do so, I intend to study these practices of translation at Aston, for this field is still underdeveloped in Brazil. Therefore, it is i…

  Identity and gender in Brazilian and American translations of La Casa de los Espíritus, by Isabel Allende, BE.EP.DD