A linguistic approach to the translated literary text: aspects in the construction of the novel They shoot horses, don’t they ? and its Portuguese translation, from the perspective of thematic organization
Keywords:
discourse approaches to translation, systemic-functional linguistics - thematic organization, hard boiled literatureAbstract
This article analyses Horace McCoy´s They shoot horses, don’t they? and its translation into Portuguese from the perspective of thematic organization at clause and text level. Drawing on systemic functional Linguistics, it examines clause Themes and text hyper- and macroThemes in order to observe how they construct meanings which can be correlated to the theme of the novel and its affiliation to particular literary genre: hard boiled novels. Thematic choices in the original and translated texts are compared and conclusions are drawn as to the impact these choices have upon the overall meaning construed by the text. KEY WORDS: discourse approaches to translation – systemic-functional linguistics - thematic organization – hard boiled literature.
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