Tradução comentada do português para o inglês da Lei municipal nº 10.659/2017, que dispõe sobre a atividade de turismo no município de Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

According to Secretaria Estadual de Turosmo do Ceará, the city of Fortaleza/CE received, in 2019, a total of 374,962 visitors. Among these, 40,421 came from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, countries that have English as their native language, or one of them. In Fortaleza/CE, the activity of tourism is regulated by Municipal Law nº 10.659/2017, which establishes the rules, rights and duties related to the activity of tour guides. However, language becomes a barrier to understanding these rules, which, naturally, follow the official local language and rarely have official translated versions. We know that English is already considered the standard form of international communication in many areas of business, such as tourism, technology and international law, for instance, which means that its reach goes beyond the barriers of English-speaking countries. Therefore, the objective of this study was to propose a translation from Portuguese to English of Municipal Law nº 10.659/2017. In the context of interlingual translation (interpretation of verbal signs through other types of signs from the same language), this work is based on Christiane Nord's functionalist approach, according to which the equivalence between the source text (TF) and the target text (TA) is subordinate to the purpose of the translation. In line with most writings on translation theory, Nord (2016) states that the translator must analyze the text comprehensively to ensure that the TF is fully understood. Kobyakova (2017) and Gudumac (2011) agree that legal translation offers challenges to the translator that generally do not exist in other types of translation, because, in addition to lexical, semantic and stylistic difficulties inherent to the complexity of legal terminology, there are difficulties caused by the possible occurrence of different legal systems, as occurs between Brazil and the United States. This study was carried out in the following stages: 1) analysis of the skopos (translation situation); 2) analysis of the TF focusing on its extratextual and intratextual elements and intended effect; 3) identification of translation strategies and 4) production of the TA. This work was quite enriching and enlightening in relation to the complexities involved in a translation process, mainly because it involves a legal text. The TA produced can be used independently for distribution in the form of pamphlets, posters, digital files, for instance, fulfilling the specific objective of being an informative material that will play its role beyond the limits of the academic environment.