Promovendo múltiplas interpretações de narrativas traduzidas: Um diálogo entre a Narratologia Cognitiva e a Teoria da Relevância

Isabela Braga Lee; Igor A. Lourenço da Silva; Fabio

doi:10.14393/LL63-v40-2024-61

Authors

Isabela Braga Lee Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8548-7625
Igor A. Lourenço da Silva Universidade de Uberlândia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0738-3262
Fabio Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1089-4864

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v40-2024-61

Keywords:

Relevance Theory, Cognitive Narratology, Translated literature, Young adult narratives, Epistemic pluralism

Abstract

The interpretations conveyed by narratives are not unanimous. In challenging common assumptions that pragmatic theories do not contribute to the study of literature, the present article proposes a dialogue between Cognitive Narratology, an interdisciplinary area which emerged in literary studies, and Relevance Theory, a cognitive-pragmatic theory. The affordances of such a dialogue are discussed according to the representation of fictional minds, the impact of such representation on the narrative participants, and its impact on the meanings and interpretations. An analysis of Skellig, a young adult narrative by David Almond translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Waldéa Barcellos, shows that the approximation of cognitive narratological and relevance-theoretic assumptions allows for a more cognitively-grounded, all-encompassing view of linguistics into literature. Distinguishing the communicative acts in the translated text accommodates the translator’s role as a producer of discourse, one whose attitude (as an implied translator) may or not be regarded as relevant by readers.

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Author Biographies

Isabela Braga Lee, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

M.A. in Linguistics from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2024). Ph.D. student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Igor A. Lourenço da Silva, Universidade de Uberlândia

Ph.D. in Linguistics from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2012). Associate professor at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Fabio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Ph.D. in Sprachlehrforschung (Applied Linguistics) from Ruhr Universität Bochum (1995). Full professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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