A situacionalidade, enquanto princípio de textualidade, na tradução de O corvo, de Edgar Allan Poe, feita em forma de cordel por José Lira

Abstract

The current work aims to analyze how the standard of situationality influenced in the composition of the translation of “The Raven”, by Edgar Allan Poe, that was made by José Lira in form of Cordel. Considering the situationality like one of the seven standards of textuality, such like were characterized by Beaugrande and Dressler (1981), we can realize that it is something much relevant in the composition of any text, because the situationality guides both the interpretative context as the context of production. According to Marcuschi (2008), the text genres allow achieving certain aims inside certain social situations; on the other hand, Bronckart (2009) relates the action language to the social representations that influence the text production, and that vary in accord of the situation of production. Then, we observe that José Lira guided his translation through the function that the translated text would have for the reader community that would have access to it, adapting it culturally, in order to guarantee to this reader community a better interpretation of the text. We try to observe how the translator made such adaptations to the reception context of the translated text. The main results of the research demonstrated that this adaptation occurred through the lexical choices and the choice of the text genre for which was made the translation (cordel literature), so, the standard of situationality influenced in an relevant way in the construction of José Lira’s text.