La autotraducción académica: el caso de la producción publicada por la revista académica periférica plurilingüe Ecos de Linguagem

Maria Alice Antunes

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v15n1a10

Authors

Maria Alice Antunes State University of Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v15n1a10

Keywords:

science dissemination, internationalization of scientific research, academic self-translation

Abstract

Higher education institutions in Brazil deploy practices aiming at the internationalization of the academic-scientific knowledge produced by their researchers. One of such practices is setting up bilingual journals. The role of translation in this process is therefore undeniable. In this article, the focus is on academic self-translation, that is, the translation of scientific texts done by its author-researcher himself/herself. In order to do this, we analyze the case of Ecos de Linguagem, a multilingual journal by Instituto de Letras (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro —uerj). The discussion focuses on publishing in academic journals through self-translation and how these phenomena relate to each other. The journal encourages reading in several languages without giving up publication in Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, in the period 2012-2018, six bilingual issues were published, totaling 57 articles. From those, 49 per cent were translated by the authors themselves. Contrary to the frequent practice, between 2012 and 2015, Ecos de Linguagem made the self-translator’s name visible. Also contrary to the use in translation into English, between 2012 and 2015, the journal published six issues: One bilingual Portuguese/Italian issue, one Portuguese/French, three Portuguese/Spanish, and one Portuguese/English. This article presents a case study regarding the experiences from authors participating in the Portuguese/French issue. Data were collected by means of semi-structured individual interviews, and emails to clarify specific issues raised during the interviews, which were carried out through videoconferencing software. Data were analyzed according to Jung’s self-translation typology. The results indicated the need to extend the author’s typology to include support and modality as criteria.

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Author Biography

Maria Alice Antunes, State University of Rio de Janeiro

Maria Alice Antunes is a researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Letters, ILE/UERJ. Among his main bibliographic productions are Self-translation: brief history, reasons, consequences, practices (EdUERJ, 2019) and Respect for the original: João Ubaldo Ribeiro and self-translation (Annablume, 2009). He is a member of the FORTRALIT project (Translator training: experimenting with literary translation). Her YouTube channel, Alice Antunes: Traduzir e Retraduzir, highlights the work of translators and the history of translation.

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