Translation and Time, Fashion and Class

27 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • David Alan Prescott

Demonstration (yet again) of how some of the challenges presented to the translator are impossible to deal with; these include class bias terms, regional and social accents and what are sometimes seen as dialects. If it is considered that there are 36 dialects of English in the British Isles, and it is also considered that there are no dialects of Portuguese, then what can we do when having to translate them? And: does it really matter?