BUILDING A BILINGUAL PORTUGUESE-ENGLISH CORPUS WITH XML TAGGING OF CULTURAL-SPECIFIC ITEMS IN INTERLINGUAL TRANSLATION

Abstract

This paper aims to present the use of eXtensible Markup Language to annotate specific cultural items in the building of a bilingual corpus in the Portuguese-English pair. To this aim, the following specific objectives are defined: i) To present the initial stages of building a bilingual corpus with XML markup; ii) Present a proposal for the annotation logic of specific cultural items in the corpus; and iii) Annotate specific cultural items in the corpus with XML markup. The texts used for the construction of the corpus presented in this work correspond to the chapters Change and Fabiano, from the work Vidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, and their respective translations by Ralph Edward Dimmick in Barren Lives, entitled A New Home and Fabiano, respectively. Methodologically, an experimental study is made out, oriented to corpora studies, building a bilingual corpus, pointing out the annotation criteria, construction and orientation of the corpus for the research interests in the field of Translation Studies, from an initial cut of the work studied and its respective translation. As a theoretical framework, we use the studies of Hardie (2014), Aixelá (2013), Magalhães (2001), among other authors who discuss Translation Studies, Corpus Linguistics and Cultural-Specific Items. With XML markup, we seek to make notes identifying specific cultural items of the northeastern sertão to observe the treatment given to specificities in the translation process. The results highlight that the use of XML markup makes it possible to identify patterns in translation to deal with specific cultural items of the northeastern sertão, allowing the quantification of translations, foreignizations and domestications, making the analysis more efficient.