Entre máquinas e estrelas: análise da formação de palavras e da transposição semântica entre contemporaneidade e antiguidade na tradução de Regulus

Abstract

The present work belongs to the research line “Language and Humanities” of the PostGraduation in Linguistics Program of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and its main objective is to investigate, from a qualitative methodology, aspects related to the use of the extempore Latin, (or neo-Latin) developed beyond the limits of classical literature, for the translation of Le petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) into Latin. Being an open text, this work presents a text full of terms to designate objects foreign to the cultural universe in which Latin – a language of antiquity – prospered as a language of use and culture. In this dissertation, we intend to evaluate how the translation of these words operates in the latin version of the book, Regulus (2001), as well as strategies mobilized by the translator to express such referents in Latin and the semantic repercussions that were observed as a result of these strategies. To carry out the research, we present an initial study, in which we reflect on the varieties of Latin, based on the notes of Clackson and Horrocks (2007) and Janson (2004), characterizing the sermo litterarius as a reference variation of this work. Later, we present a study of Regulus, highlighting and analyzing the lexicon related to referents, such as a plane, names of firearms and place names. We base our analysis on precepts of Translation Theory such as the analysis of zoom, addition, subtraction, domestication and foreignization resources, based on theoretical authors such as Schleiermacher (1813), Venuti (1995) and Nida (1964). The research explored the typical usage of the language for the observation of semantic groups that help the interpretation of neologisms, observing the revitalized Latin from the relationship between elements available in the linguistic repertoire. The results suggest that there is a prevalence of periphrases to signify modern referents in the Latin polysystem, so that there is a rescue of terms familiar to the sermo litterarius for the revitalization of extemporaneous Latin.