A falta de desverbalização em Beastars: um lobo estranho?

Abstract

In this project, we propose to investigate the Brazilian Portuguese subtitles of Netflix’s 2019 original anime series Beastars. Our main objective was to prove that indirect translation had been used, i.e. that English subtitles and not the Japanese audio was adopted for translating. In doing so, according to Marianne Lederer’s Interpretive Theory, we also tried to determine the possible reasons for the problematics found in our corpus — which can be described mainly as odd sentences and structures which stand out amongst and differ considerably from usual Portuguese syntax, expressions and synecdoques. Therefore, we started by introducing Japanese animations as an object of study through the works of Souza (2019) et al. and, when moving to the analysis, we presented Brazilian Portuguese and English subtitles side by side, along with a transcription of the Japanese audio and Japanese-Portuguese translation samples so as to compare and better analyse our assumption. Besides Lederer (2019), we resorted to Cintas & Remael (2014) et al. for a few essential subtitling concepts, to Anna Vermeulen (2011) et al. for information on indirect translation, and to Tagnin (2002; 2013) and Berber Sardinha (2000) for understanding Corpus Linguistics, which we included in this project by consulting the Brazilian Portuguese online corpus Corpus do Português: NOW, although not very often. Thus, through mixed methodology: qualitative due to the way the occurences were chosen and presented, and quantitative because of our consulting, although not so frequently, the aforementioned online corpus. We have come to the conclusion that we have reason to believe the indirect translation hypothese valid. Even though we have not been able to reconstruct all of the translation process encompassing English subtitles and the Brazilian Portuguese ones, we can say that most of the selected translation data had desverbalization and conventionalization problems.