English-Portuguese sworn translation of school documents: cultural, terminological and translational issues

• Grant number: 07/00591-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2007
• Effective date (End): June 30, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Lidia Almeida Barros
• Grantee: Ivanir Azevedo Delvizio
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work is part of a main project, named Sworn (Official) Translation Lexicon, coordinated by PhD. Lidia Almeida Barros. The research lines are: Terminology, Translation studies based on corpora and Official Translation. The aim of this work is to analyze the lexicon found in school documents (diplomas, school transcripts, certificates etc.) translated from Portuguese into English by official translators. We also intend to observe if the lexicon used in translated documents is the same used in original documents. In relation to the English language, we intend to analyze the lexical differences between American and British English and the translator behavior. Besides that, we are going to study the sociolinguistic and cultural aspects underneath lexical similarities and differences found between the following pairs: Portuguese/English and British/American English.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

DELVIZIO, Ivanir Azevedo. Tradução juramentada de documentos escolares→português: questões culturais, terminológicas e tradutórias. 2011. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto.