Translating and Retranslating Text-Worlds in The Handmaid's Tale
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Text World Theory, The Handmiad's Tale, Literary TranslationAbstract
Given the paucity of interlinguistic studies on world-building, this article analyses the mental representations projected by lexicogrammatical elements in an excerpt from the novel The Handmaid’s Tale and in the corresponding fragments of two Brazilian translations. Based on a theoretical and methodological framework which consists of Stylistics, Text World Theory and Translation Studies, it is concluded that translating can exert an effect on world-building through translational choices. Choices in verbal aspect, verbal processes, text-world objects, epistemic modality can impact on the way texts are cognitively processed by readers
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