In Brazilian concrete poetry, some poems stand out for their unique use of media, such as manipulating the physicality of the book page. In the specific case of Poemóbiles (1974), by Augusto de Campos and Julio Plaza, the page is transformed into a manipulable three-dimensional sculpture that results in verbal, visual, auditory, and kinetic meaning. This research aims to translate the Poemóbiles to French according to poetic transcreation, as formulated by Haroldo de Campos, and based on analyses of object-poems grounded in Semiotics. In Translation Studies, we consider the theories of intersemiotic translation and Audiovisual Translation to problematize the concept of the text and how textuality affects the translation of poetry. To delve deeper into the method of transcreation, we analyze the translation A Rosa Doente, by Augusto de Campos, of the poem The Sick Rose, by William Blake. The analysis of A Rosa Doente suggests an approach to poetic transcreation that considers the indexical aspects of the original work in order to effectively modify the process of transcreation composition. The analyses of the Poemóbiles demonstrate that the physical presentation and the reading processs of object-poems highlight the materiality of the book and the page as an integral part of meaning. We therefore emphasize the importance of a translation approach that considers the materiality of poetry as much as its verbal aspect.

This dissertation addresses the theme of accessible tourism based on the intersemiotic translation of Brasília's (Plano Piloto) tourist and cultural itinerary, a requirement for obtaining a master's degree in translation studies at UNB- Brasília University. This dissertation is an exploratory study and aims to propose the accessible virtual mediation of a tourist itinerary in Brasília according to the models of semiotic analysis and intersemiotic translation of Lúcia Santaella 2002 and Julio Plaza 2010 respectively. This itinerary includes tourist and cultural points located in Asa Norte, Asa Sul and Eixo Monumental. The semiotic analysis of the so-called accessible tourist and cultural spots in the Brasília region allowed us to identify the main aspects (such as the description of colors and textures, the use of simple and accessible language, and the inclusion of elements that stimulate the senses and enrich the visitors' experience, such as sounds and aromas) to be considered in the elaboration of mediation that includes people with physical, visual, auditory, and intellectual disabilities as well as understanding whether the tourist, when visiting an accessible tourist spot, identifies with the place or develops a sense of belonging.

 This study is part of the research line Theory, Criticism, and History of Translation, within the area of concentration Translation in Context. The research describes the translation project of the preface and Chapters I and VIII from the fascicle Les Champignons Hallucinogènes du Mexique: études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques, by Roger Heim and Robert Gordon Wasson, published in France in 1958, about the sacred mushrooms of Mexico. The study aims to promote a critical reading that exposes the coloniality inherent in Western scientific discourse regarding these mushrooms. This research investigates translation as a crucial tool to unveil the coloniality present in historical texts on psychedelic science. The objective is to demonstrate how translation can reveal the colonial dynamics that permeate these texts, allowing a more critical reading that expands the understanding of the power relations that often shape scientific production. The premise of the study shows that, despite their importance to the history and studies of psychoactive mushrooms, these texts reflect a colonial logic. The European and American researchers who wrote them treated Indigenous peoples merely as informants, exoticized and decontextualized their knowledge and practices, and transformed them into commodities. This process involved biopiracy, appropriation, and the erasure of Indigenous narratives, converting traditional knowledge into patents, luxury products, and studies often conducted without consent to serve the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. The study is based on three main theoretical pillars: indirect translation, annotated translation, and translation as criticism of coloniality. Indirect translation is a key aspect, as one of the texts was first translated from English into French before being translated into Portuguese. The annotated translation in this study serves as an invitation to critical reflection, encouraging the reader not only to consume the translated material passively but also to recognize its contradictions, gaps, and impacts. Translation as criticism makes it possible to highlight the layers of coloniality embedded in these texts, revealing that the history of psychedelic science is neither neutral nor impartial. The methodology consists of an annotated translation, with the translator’s notes that highlight the lexical and discursive choices of the original authors that resulted in erasures, cultural appropriations, and the exoticization of Indigenous peoples and their practices.

In recent last few decades, Brazil has become the destination for thousands of immigrants from different parts of the world, who arrive here for various reasons. Among the main causes for the increase in global migration are wars, social conflicts, economic crises, climate change and the spread of international organized crime. So the Brazilian Judiciary has been faced with a growing number of cases involving foreign defendants, especially from Latin American countries (BRASIL,2024, p.75-83), accused of various crimes, with International Drug Trafficking being the most recurrent among them. Faced with this scenario, the Judiciary must adopt measures capable of guaranteeing these defendants the rights and guarantees provided for in the Federal Constitution and other legal diplomas in our legal system. One of the main measures is to guarantee their linguistic rights, since many do not speak our vernacular - the Portuguese language. After all, this is the only way to ensure their rights to ample defense and contradiction during the course of the criminal proceedings. To this end, the linguistic-cultural mediation of a forensic interpreter is essential. Through their work (provided for in articles 193 and 223 of the CPP), they will enable the defendants to be linguistically present during procedural acts. Although the importance of the interpreter is recognized, there are not enough qualified forensic interpreters in Brazil to meet the demands of the judiciary (NORDIN, 2018, p.11). Hence this search aims to highlight the important role of the forensic interpreter as a social and public agent, demonstrating the socio-cultural relevance of Translation as a tool to safeguard Human Rights, in particular the Linguistic Rights of immigrants from countries where Spanish is the official language. In addition, through this study, we aim to demonstrate how challenging legal translation/interpretation is, as it requires knowledge of the specialty language of Law. We also sought to contribute to the training of new interpreters by preparing terminographic material in the light of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT), which defines terms as conceptual and denominative units directly linked to a field of expertise, in this case, Criminal Law. Thus, adopting the communicative bias of TCT for terminological selection, we created a unidirectional bilingual vocabulary (Portuguese>Spanish) of legal terms extracted from their natural environment of occurrence, i.e. International Drug Trafficking sentences. In this sense, Corpus Linguistics works as a methodology associated with Terminology and Translation, collaborating in the identification, corpus compilation and selection of terms in Portuguese, as well as pointing out the probable equivalents in Spanish. In this way, we hope that the legal vocabulary will serve as teaching material, which can contribute to the training and professional qualification of new forensic interpreters/translators, as well as a source of consultation and research for professionals who already work in this field.

Artificial intelligence has sought to position itself as a support tool for promoting accessibility for people with visual impairments. However, the lack of adequate audio description in educational materials still represents a significant challenge, limiting blind students' access to essential visual content in the learning process—especially in fields such as language teaching, where vocabulary and visual context play a fundamental role in knowledge construction. In this context, the general objective of this research is to evaluate image audio descriptions from the Spanish textbook Gente Única generated by artificial intelligence tools, based on audio description guidelines (Motta, 2016). The theoretical framework approaches audio description as a mode of intersemiotic translation, essential for the inclusion of people with visual impairments in language learning. The study also discusses the role of AI as a support tool for accessibility, highlighting its potential to produce automatic audio descriptions. A qualitative, exploratory-descriptive methodological approach is adopted, through which audio descriptions generated by AI tools—such as ChatGPT, Zapia, Be My Eyes, Lookout, and Copilot—are evaluated based on criteria such as the description of characters, settings, use of verb tense, and interpretative impartiality. The results indicate that although AIs show potential to generate audio descriptions, there are significant limitations, such as a lack of detail in describing characters and settings, the absence of frame identification, and the omission of contextual information.

For this research, within the field of Translation Studies, a comparative analysis was proposed on how Ruth Barros's Brazilian translation of The Woman's Bible, entitled “A Bíblia para as Mulheres” (2019), aligns with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's feminist perspective (1895), and to what extent it converges with or diverges from the traditional thematic adaptation “A Bíblia da Mulher” (2003) from João Ferreira de Almeida. The objective is to explore how Feminist Translation Studies engage with these texts, particularly in analyzing how they represent the concept of “woman.” In this approach, Stanton challenged the orthodox religious perspective of the 19th century by revising biblical passages that referred to women, demonstrating that the Bible was not written directly by God but rather interpreted through patriarchal lenses. In doing so, she contested the ideas of female guilt and divinely ordained submission. Given this historical context, the research analyzes biblical verses with subversive connotations, drawing on the concept of translation as a cultural and social practice (Sherry Simon, 1996), in dialogue with translation and gender studies (Luise Von Flotow, 1997). The hermeneutics of suspicion approach, as developed by Paul Ricoeur (1986), is used to investigate how these translations and interpretations shape representations of gender, power, and identity in society. This study contributes to broadening the debate on the impact of translation in constructing new perspectives on gender and religion within the Brazilian context, thereby strengthening the field of Feminist Translation Studies.

In this dissertation, we aim to present a translation of Brasília's "Rock Route" into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), highlighting how musical culture and cultural spaces are crucial for identity construction and linguistic inclusion within Brasília's deaf community. We emphasize the significance of theoretical and practical approaches that render the translation process more conscious and humane. The main objective of this dissertation is to propose an annotated translation of Brasília’s Rock Route, specifically within the language pair Portuguese–Libras. Additionally, our specific objectives include: i. developing translation competencies relevant to the rock-themed translation project; ii. identifying how culture has become a significant element in Translation Studies and how cultural spaces have facilitated linguistic accessibility concerning Brazilian Sign Language (Libras); and iii. analyzing the translation diary through an annotated translation grounded in the functionalist theory proposed by Christiane Nord. To achieve these objectives, we conducted a literature review of rock music history, identified relevant authors in Cultural Translation Studies, and adopted a methodology based on Christiane Nord's Functionalist Model. This methodological approach was divided into three stages: a. translation project, b. logbook, and c. annotated translation. Upon completion of the translation process, the annotated translation analysis revealed that culture is fundamental in the translation process into Libras, enabling deaf individuals in Brasília to forge their local identity. Furthermore, the importance of creating a specialized glossary in this field was identified, alongside the necessity for translation studies in cultural contexts to be incorporated into the training of Sign Language Translators and Interpreters (TILSP).

The research line adopted in this work is Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices from the Graduate Program in Translation Studies at the University of Brasília (Postrad/UnB). Its object of study is the translation process of institutional informative content produced by the Department of Traffic of the Federal District (Detran/DF) into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), with an emphasis on the specialized lexicon related to obtaining a Driver's License (CNH). The target audience includes Deaf individuals and users of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) who wish to obtain a CNH—commonly known as a driver's license—as well as translators, interpreters, examiners, instructors, and others interested in the field. Thus, the objective is to translate information from Portuguese into Libras, making it available in the form of video guides on the official social media channels of Detran/DF, in order to broaden Deaf people's access to legal guidelines and promote accessibility. The specific research objectives consist of: i) researching existing laws and rights regarding the right of Deaf people to drive and obtain a CNH; ii) analyzing Translation and Interpretation Studies of Sign Languages (ETILS) in search of research focused on translation; and iii) reviewing websites of other State Traffic Departments (Detrans) to verify whether there is formative and informative content available in Libras. The theoretical framework was divided into three parts: the first part deals with translation studies; the second with translation and interpretation studies of sign languages; and finally, with translation processes. The methodological approach was divided into five steps: i) identification of the objective and target audience; ii) receipt of videos sent by the Communication Department of Detran/DF (Ascom); iii) organization of the translation project and preparation of glosses, based on references from Nord (1991, 2005), Barbosa (2004), and Santiago (2012); iv) recording of videos in Libras and translation (voice-over) following the principles of Xavier (2022); and v) validation of the recordings with the Libras team working in the Graduate Program in Translation Studies (Postrad/UnB) and with the team of the “Libras tem Voz” program from the Communication Department of Detran/DF. As a result, nine video guides were produced, offering information in Libras for obtaining a CNH. The set of video guides produced in the project demonstrated that it is possible to combine accessibility, communicative quality, and social commitment in a single product.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), one of the most prominent figures in Brazilian culture, with over 200 short stories to his name, is regarded as a master of the short story genre. To this day, the classic works of Machado de Assis have not lost their relevance; on the contrary, his timeless works continue to gain recognition both in Brazil and internationally, mainly through the translation of his literary works. This dissertation focuses on Machado de Assis’s short story O alienista (1882), aiming to carry out a comparative descriptive analysis of five English translations and their comparison with the source text, focusing on the translation of Machadian allusions with contrapuntal irony (Bakhtin, 2010; Cherlin, 2017; Hutcheon, 1995), addressing the issue of the translator’s (in)visibility (Venuti, 2004) and identifying the predominant translation strategy (Venuti, 2004; Toury, 2012). The corpus consists of the original version of O alienista, available in the Public Domain, and the following translations: The Psychiatrist (T1) in The Psychiatrist and Other Stories (1963), translated by William Grossman and published by University of California Press (USA); The Alienist (T2) in The Alienist and Other Stories of 19th Century Brazil (2013), translated by John Charles Chasteen and published by Hackett Publishing (USA); The Psychiatrist (T3) in Stories (2014), translated by Rhett McNeil and published by Dalkey Archive Press (USA); The Alienist (T4) in The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis (2018), translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson and published by Liveright Publishing Corporation (USA); The Alienist (T5) in The Looking Glass: Essential Stories (2022), translated by Daniel Hahn and published by Pushkin Press (UK). This descriptive case study is based on Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory (1990, 2010), Holmes’s model (2004) as expanded by Toury (2012); and Venuti’s concept of translator’s (in)visibility (2004). The comparative analysis is based on the framework proposed by Lambert and Van Gorp (1985), as well as on the theories of scholars such as Leppihalme (1997), Lefevere (2007), Aubert (1998), Molina and Hurtado Albir (2002), among others. The results show that the analyzed translations follow three main directions: 1) domestication (acceptability), with medium to high translator’s invisibility (T1, T2); 2) a balanced approach between domestication and foreignization (acceptability/adequacy), with low translator’s visibility; 3) foreignization (adequacy), with medium to high translator’s visibility (T4, T5)

This dissertation investigates the use of Yorùbá language as an identity and cultural marker in Candomblé, both within religious temples and in digital environments. Situated within the field of Translation Studies, the research approaches Yorùbá as a form of symbolic resistance, carrying untranslatable meanings that are essential to the preservation of African worldviews. Adopting a qualitative methodology, the study examined social media posts from religious institutions, identifying recurrent Yorùbá terms, orthographic variations, and translation strategies. The findings indicate that

non-translation and the preservation of original spelling are common practices, closely tied to identity affirmation, cultural resistance, and the transmission of ancestral knowledge. This work contributes to expanding the understanding of translation as a political and decolonial practice, emphasizing the importance of preserving lexicon and orality in strengthening Afro-Brazilian identity.

The dissemination of K-dramas in Brazil has historically been linked to fansubbing. Their growing popularity over the past decade has led many audiovisual companies, particularly streaming platforms, to invest in translating the South Korean TV dramas into Portuguese. This study focuses on subtitling aspects related to expressions that are closely associated with the Korean culture and unfamiliar to the Brazilian culture with an emphasis on the subtitling of the K-drama Reply 1988 (2016) to Portuguese. The aim of the research was to compare the translation techniques adopted in professional and amateur subtitling, identifying tendencies toward the conservation or substitution of CSIs present in the first two episodes of the K-drama Reply 1988 (2016). The theoretical and methodological framework for defining and delimiting tendencies toward conservation and substitution is based on Aixelá (1996), who defines such culturally bound expressions as Culture-Specific Items (CSIs), and on Espindola (2005) for the thematic categorization of these expressions. The study is predominantly qualitative, supported by quantitative data. A total of 686 occurrences of CSIs were analyzed. The quantitative results indicated that both, fan subtitling and professional subtitling, showed a tendency toward the conservation of CSIs, albeit to different degrees. Fan subtitling, represented by the Viki platform, conserved 71.87% of the occurrences, whereas professional subtitling, represented by Netflix, conserved 53.06%. The qualitative analysis revealed that strategies, such as extratextual gloss, were employed exclusively in fan subtitling and were not identified in professional subtitling. This finding suggests that although professional subtitling has shown similarities compared to amateur subtitling, especially in regard to the conservation of CSIs, it still shows resistance to adopting translation strategies typically associated with fansubbing practices. Furthermore, the results by thematic category demonstrated that, in the translation of expressions related to cuisine and to dialectal expressions, interjections, and insults, substitution was the predominant strategy adopted. We concluded that the tendency toward the conservation or substitution of CSIs is not related solely to the nature of the translation, whether fan or professional, but also to platform conventions, the target audience, and the thematic category of the CSIs analyzed.

Despite its relevance within the canon of the French cultural and literary system, Georges Perec’s work, in the Portuguese language system and other languages, may have been seen as elitist, due to its experimental texts, or rather, the potentials of post-vanguardists, such as the memorabilia Je me souviens: Les choses communes I. By proposing the translation into Brazilian Portuguese titled Me Lembro: As coisas comuns I, some strategies are considered to capture the essence of his reminiscences, as well as to transmit the nostalgic and fragmented atmosphere of the original. Some processes are used to familiarize the reader with the peculiarities of the writing, while, at the same time, unveiling the Oulipian contraintes: thereby, a journey through Perec’s 480 memories is made possible. To study the process of this translation, it is particularly employed the concepts of rhizome, cartography, and assemblage, presented by the French Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work A Thousand Plateaus, as a possible method of mapping the chosen route. It is understood that translation can be seen as a rhizome because it involves the decentralized interconnection of different elements, the multiplicity of possible paths and interpretations, and the creation of a complex fabric of meanings. From this perspective, cartography can be employed to comprehend the dynamic and non-linear nature of translation, and in this research, the process of assemblage, the translation process carried out. In this conceptual map, which represents the different dimensions and relationships involved in the translation process: the assemblages of translation is identified in the location of the elements and actors involved in the translation process; rhizomes and lines of escape are mapped in the translation through the schematization of relations and connections between flows of meaning, cultural influences, and interactions between terms of the source and target languages; multiplicities are explored based on the different singularities and becomings present in the translation; deviations and ruptures are analyzed by scrutinizing the adaptations and choices made; and territories are contextualized through the examination of historical, social, and political factors that may influence the translation process and the results of the translation-product. In short, a critical analysis of the translation is carried out through a cartographic journey.

This research intended to approach, through a case study, the sociolinguistic assistance provided to immigrants and refugees who are not fluent in Portuguese in the contexts of health and education at the Paranoá region, Federal District, and to reflect on how Translations Studies and Interpretation can be useful in the linguistic reception of this population. The purpose of this dissertation is to characterize the trajectory of arrival and reception of this population in the Federal District and, consequently their integration into public services, more specifically, on health care and education. The methodology used was the collection of quantitative data from government institutions and qualitative data obtained through field observation and semi-structured interviews in three dimensions: the first, containing a brief overview of migration in Brazil and the Federal District, focusing on the Paranoá region; the second consists of presenting more specifically the Paranoá region, where the research was carried out, and the venues where the reception of immigrants and refugees was observed: the Basic Health Unit - UBS 01 and the Café sem Troco School; the third includes the results obtained from the interviews analysis. In the results of the investigation, it was possible to visualize how sociolinguistic reception was given to nonPortuguese speaking migrants in the public institutions researched, aiming to contribute for in-depth research and to enable the replication of what was presented as positive in other public institutions of the Federal District.

Drag culture has experienced a global rise into mainstream culture over the last decade, partly due to the popularization of programs such as RuPaul’s Drag Race(2009 – present).  The widespread circulation of the program has contributed to the diffusion of characteristics of this culture to the general public and the translation has become a central point for the success of the show. The linguistic interaction on the reality show is characterized, amongst other things, by the presence of a specific lingo, known as camp talk, which Keith Harvey (1998) describes as a form of speech “associated with a whole range of homosexual identities”.  Facing the lack of reliable reference materials on the theme in the language pair “English ® Portuguese”, this study aimed to analyze the translation choices of the characteristic lexical items of camp talk in the subtitles made by Netflix. Our main goal was to observe, register, and analyze how Brazilian translators have been dealing with the lexical issues of this linguistic variant in the translation. To this end, Corpus Linguistics (CL) was used as a methodological tool. After building a parallel corpus with all the episodes of seasons 11 and 12, Untucked 11 and 12, and All Stars 5 and 6, we compared the subcorpus of the original English subtitles with a corpus of general English to highlight the keywords, through the program AntConc (ANTHONY, 2017). Amongst them, we concentrated on the ones which are typical of camp talk, based on Harvey’s (2001) and Passa’s (2021) analysis strategies. Their occurrences were analyzed in context, as well as their translations, with the help of the program AntPConc (ANTHONY, 2017). The data collected throughout the research resulted in the organization of a sample of a bilingual American English ® Brazilian Portuguese glossary of camp talk and allowed us to conclude, regarding the translation of camp talk, that: i) there is a divergence between the sociolect variant of Brazilian Portuguese (pajubá) and American English (camp talk), due to a series of historical and cultural differences; ii) it is possible to use translation strategies to maintain the camp aspect, as we have observed in some examples from the corpus, even though there is a scarcity of reliable reference materials; iii) it is important to introduce and expand the notion of camp as potentially plural in both languages, always attentive to their textual and dialectal variants, so that its description can be done in a better way.

In the context of the internationalization process, by facilitating intercultural communication, fostering innovation and knowledge advancement, and also increasing institutional visibility, institutional translation is a necessary tool for higher education institutions. This study, which fits into the scope of translation studies in the institutional context, considering the globalization and internationalization processes, seeks to describe the structures and dynamics of institutional translation at the University of Brasília (UnB), presenting examples of university sections that develop activities which contribute to the internationalization process. UnB was chosen as the setting of this study due to its relevance in the Brazilian and international higher education system. To achieve the purpose, the study focused on the collection and analysis of primary and secondary data. The results reveal that institutional translation is a strategic practice for the university, resulting from a collective effort among its sections, and requires governance and structuring to optimize intercultural communication and to achieve the goals of the university's internationalization process. Moreover, there is an urgent need for the adoption of structured policies by UnB, with a focus on translation, that consider the entire cultural and linguistic diversity present in the institution, as well as greater investment in specialized human resources.

The subject of this dissertation is the retranslation into French of a text that I had already translated in my Final Project for a Bachelor's Degree in French Translation, defended in 2021. These are the first two chapters of the book Primavera para Rosas Negras (Spring for Black Roses), a collection of essays by the black Brazilian writer Lélia Gonzalez, published in 2018 by Filhos da África. The general aim of this work is to produce a retranslation of these texts, based on a critical and comparative analysis of my own translation strategies at the two moments and based on intellectual and political distancing and maturing. This process of retranslation is an exercise in linguistic but also political and ethical updating. The challenges of this translation and its retranslation are shaped by the feminist context of the time when Lélia Gonzalez wrote, in the 1970s, placed in perspective with the present day, when I am translating. Lélia was active in the midst of the military dictatorship, when the anti-racist issue was changing face, with the idea of "racial democracy". Her work sought to enlighten the black population about their disadvantaged position in society, in order to contribute to the constitution of the political subject of the anti-racist struggle. This process of translating and retranslating Lélia Gonzalez was marked by the question of the past: how am I, a white Franco-Brazilian translator, supposed to translate a text by a black activist into French today, bearing in mind the place of speech and privilege of whiteness in Brazilian society and the place authorised for black people? Another central issue of the work is the process of retranslation itself: producing a new translation of a text that I had already translated brought up reflections on the updated relationship with the source text and the author, but also on the relationship with my first translation and with myself. In order to address these questions, I used a critical theory of translation and retranslation as a basis, with an emphasis on the decolonial perspective, which inaugurates the critique of Eurocentrism in the social sciences and Western feminism. At the end of this process, I have come to a conclusion: in addition to political issues, questions have emerged regarding the writing of translation as an ethical and aesthetic relationship. Although I chose to translate a Brazilian work emblematic of the reality of a black woman in Brazil into French in order to broaden its access to other linguistic communities, my translation and retranslation inevitably manifested themselves in my own words, sometimes empathetically, sometimes violently. 

This study, conducted within the research line Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices of the Graduate Program in Translation Studies (POSTRAD) at the University of Brasília (UnB), aims to analyze the acquisition of interpretive competence(s) during the training of sign language interpreters and translators (TILS) in the undergraduate programs of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and Portuguese Translation and Interpretation offered by public federal higher education institutions in Brazil. To achieve this goal, we will contextualize and situate the disciplinary field in which the research will be developed; define and present the concept of curriculum; review theses and dissertations on the topic of competencies; identify the undergraduate programs focused on training sign language interpreters and translators at public federal universities and institutions in Brazil; and examine the curriculum matrices of these programs, specifically focusing on the courses related to Interpretation and Interpretation Studies. The structure of the research is divided into five chapters. Chapter one provides a historical overview of the relevant disciplinary fields, including Translation Studies, Interpretation Studies, and Translation and Interpretation of Sign Languages. In chapter two, we will discuss the concepts of translation competence, interpretive competence, and interpreter competence, with a focus on TILS professionals, followed by a literature review on the subject. Chapter three addresses the formation of TILS, highlighting the evolution of legislation and the current landscape for training these professionals. In chapter four, we will conduct a survey and analysis of the curriculum matrices of the undergraduate programs, considering the concepts of interpreter competence and interpretive competence, as well as aspects related to the institutionalization of the programs and professional practice.

This work was developed within the Translation research scope and Sociodiscursive Practices of the Graduate Program in Translation Studies at the University of Brasília (POSTRAD/UnB). Its object of study is the terms of the content of Defensive Driving (DD), one of the theoretical requirements for obtaining the National Driver's License (CNH), aiming at the suggestion of a bilingual glossary in the Portuguese Language and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) pair. The target audience is candidates for Deaf drivers, as well as translators, interpreters, teachers, and other interested people in the area. The specific objectives of the research lie in: i) carrying out a bibliographical research on the Traffic Legislation in order to trace the trajectory of the Deaf citizen's right to drive; ii) survey how information is presented on the Brazilian Traffic Departments websites , seeking accessibility for the Deaf public, and whether there is bilingual material to promote access; and iii) highlight the process stages for obtaining a driver's license in the Federal District (DF) focusing on the theoretical-technical course content, demonstrating the importance of DD in everyday traffic. The theoretical foundation was divided into five topics, which address: translation and the Brazilian Sign Language: a look of struggle!; Translation Studies and Terminology: historical aspects; Libras Terminology: brief postgraduate research; bilingual glossary: concept and structure of a terminographic work focused on Libras; Corpus Linguistics (CL) as a facilitator and ratifier in the extraction of terms. The methodological path that defines the scope of the glossary was divided into four stages: i) identification of the object of study and target audience; ii) selection of terms in Portuguese based on the LC using the AntConc tool; iii) informants selection, through the application of questionnaires with DETRAN's and qualified Deaf people, in addition to identifying terms in media materials; and iv) preparation and organization of terminology sheets (FT) in Portuguese and Libras. In response to the collection, 145 candidate terms were located, and 10 terms were selected to suggest a pilot project macro and microstructure for a bilingual glossary. This research does not address the creation of term signals. These term-signals come from the informants. This study is part of a project that is underway at DETRAN/DF called “Libras no Trânsito”. It is expected that this proposal will provide support for the preparation of teaching materials suitable for the Deaf public. Thus, we highlight the importance of using visual resources in Libras and written Portuguese as a second language, to promote the effective training of this driver. Finally, improvements are sought for the Deaf linguistic accessibility in the environment of the Department of Transit of the Federal District, in addition to encouraging new research in the area.

This work is part of the research line Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices, developed in the Postgraduate Program in Translation Studies - POSTRAD and in the Laboratory of Technology for the Studies of Translation and Interpretation of Sign Languages in Brazil and the World - LabTecTrad. The object of study is Automatic Translators. The general objective is to analyze the translation processes carried by Automatic Translators for Brazilian Sign Language - Portuguese. The target audience for this research are translators who use these technologies as work tools. Therefore, it has the following specific objectives: i) to present a brief history of machine translators that use the language pair sign language and Portuguese; ii) search for government sites and institutions that use automatic translators in Sign Language; iii) interview the group that study, organize and create automatic translators and find out how many deaf people participate in these teams and iv) investigate their strengths and weaknesses in the construction of meaning in PL. The main motivation for carrying out this research came after i’m joined as a professor at the Federal Institute of Brasília - IFB, where courses are offered in Initial and Continuing Training - FIC, Technical and Higher Undergraduate and Postgraduate. All courses are free and open to the community in general and the call uses automatic translators as a form of linguistic accessibility. As a way of understanding this functioning, it was necessary to adopt the methodological path of Tuxi (2017) where we initially made the following path: i. organize a translation project; collect translations from machine translators; analyze the translations made by them and propose a translation. As a result, it was possible from the contrast performed, to propose a translation that we present in the form of QRCode and that we believe that in the future it can be inserted in the website of the Federal Institute of Brasília - IFB. This work joins the others in the field of Sign Language Translation Studies and hopes to reinforce the area.

The constant changes in human migration flows bring to the forefront of discussion how to safeguard fundamental rights enshrined in international treaties and domestic legislations, such as an individual's linguistic rights. Such a right aims to ensure that people with little or no proficiency in a country's official language can access essential services through professional interpreting provided by a "community interpreter". Among those who are prevented from accessing social services due to little language proficiency are the refugees who, apart from being particularly vulnerable, are unable to communicate with service providers because they speak a language other than that spoken by the agencies whose services they seek. Faced with such a challenge, it is necessary to implement language assistance policies that could be translated into an integrated interpreter's training, certification, and accreditation system. Even though few countries provide specialized interpreting training, most of those that do have some type of training framework depend on manuals and ethical codes written without due consideration of linguistic studies or specialized reflections on the nature of translation and interpretation. Against such a backdrop, this research aims to look into some of such materials-manuals, guides, and codes of ethics - written in English, in order to identify how language, translation, and interpretation concepts are understood and portrayed. Based on the results derived from such a linguistic analysis, we aimed at reflecting on the training of community interpreters in refugee and migration contexts. In order to understand how interpreter-mediated interactions unfold, we adopted the theoretical and methodological framework of Interactional Sociolinguistics, which focus on the verbal interaction dynamics and on the agency of all participants, including that of the mediators themselves. The data were collected and analyzed drawing on corpus-based discourse analysis concepts, which enabled us to identify idealized and impractical understandings of the translation activity and the interpreter's role. Such understandings were linguistically translated into the use of words, among others, such as "neutrality", "impartiality" and "accuracy". Even though some of the materials were written in countries that have a history of hosting immigrants and of implementing language assistance services, they convey limited and essentialist concepts of the translation activity, taking it to be a transparent and invisible procedure. Against such concepts, we propose a preliminary reflection of interpreter training based on the dialogical and situated interaction and on the interpreter's agency, a protagonist of undeniably imbalanced human interactions.

This research, in the field of Translation Studies, is based on Walter Benjamin’s work, especially regarding his thoughts expressed in “The Translator’s Task”, to examine the interface between Translation and Law, shedding light on the significance of translators in the exchange of ideas from one country to another, i.e., in the task of transforming cultures and languages, not carrying messages. As experience should occur ahead of theories (MESCHONNIC, 2010), the starting point of this research was a translation, from English into Portuguese, of the original (BENJAMIN, 2008): the lead opinion of the majority written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch in the Ramos v. Louisiana case, argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 2020. In that opportunity, the Court adopted a meaningful rationale by discussing the possibility of overturning the Apodaca v. Oregon precedent and explaining the racist origins of Louisiana’s and Oregon’s laws. As a result, it ruled that the US Constitution requires unanimous verdicts to convict defendants of serious offenses. Given that, there are some pragmatic reasons why the original could lead to a transformation – in accordance with Walter Benjamin, his followers and their shared epistemology – in the target culture. First, it highlights the complementarity in languages (BENJAMIN, 2008), as this research revealed a possible enrichment of the Portuguese language in the process of language relations. Second, it lays down the unanimity requirement, an important concept to the Brazilian rules of criminal procedure once jurors recover their legal right to openly deliberate within a jury trial. Third, it goes back in history to the roots of Oregon’s and Louisiana’s laws, which could foster social awareness on the issue of racism in Brazil. The findings of this research indicate that by accepting strangeness, rather than erasing it, the opinion delivered by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch in the source culture could eventually transform the Brazilian context, not only in terms of the country’s language, but also concerning its culture, which goes beyond the legal area.

This research was developed in the research line Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices, of the Graduate Program in Translation Studies – POSTRAD at the University of Brasília. The object of study are the signals used in sporting events such as Deaflympics events. In this sense, this work has the general objective of organizing a multilingual glossary as a tool for deaf translators and interpreters who work in sporting events such as Deaflympics. To achieve this objective, we proposed the following specific objectives: i. Investigate the role of translator and interpreter of Libras and IntSL (intramodal and interlingual interpretation) in Brazil and in the international context at the Deaflympics 2022 event; ii. Describe the history of national and international deaf sport over time until reaching the Deaflympics 2022 and iii. Identify the way of registering Terminologies in a multilingual glossary through international and national research on sporting events. As a theoretical basis, we used for research on translators and interpreters for deaf and non-deaf people: Pinheiro (2022), Granado (2019) and Nogueira (2016), specific in the areas of study of translation and interpretation, knowledge about simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, intramodal and intermodal, on theorists of Libras and International Sign Language (IntSL), thermology and glossary for sporting events. The methodological proposal follows the model of Tuxi (2017), that is, it presents a macrostructure and microstructure of the term signs based on the organization of terminological sheets in English, IntSL, Portuguese, Libras and Illustration, with specialization of the term signs used in the 24th Deaflympics. In the current glossary there are a total of 21 signs of sports and 85 signs of services, in addition to including videos of the use of QR codes as a tool in the multilingual Glossary of term signs by Deaflympics

This master's dissertation aims to analyze the development of translation competence, more specifically the thematic ability/terminological knowledge of translation learners in the Bachelor of Letters in English Translation at the University of Brasilia. Therefore, our proposal is to evaluate the text of the students of English-Portuguese Translation Practice: Technical and Scientific Texts, and the application of a questionnaire and a translation activity and use the mentioned text of the students to compose collecting data for analysis. The research aims to guide students to make proper use of terminology tools, thinking about their relevance, expectations and challenges in understanding and translating texts, using strategies to solve problems and support tools. The work is also concerned to demonstrate how the translation activity, mediated by the professor, can be favorable to the development of criticism and new translation practices, realizing that the use of terminological tools are important resources that help the translator to carry out his tasks with ease, more efficiency, agility, and confidence, using the target language clearly and precisely. The research makes it possible to identify the difficulties faced by the students in matters related to the textual production of specialized knowledge and makes it possible to analyze the positive and negative points, regarding the methodology used in the classroom in the textual production and allows changing methods to solve negative points and the production of other actions to improve the conduct of discipline. The dissertation used the quali-quantitative method to analyze the texts of a group of students of bachelor of Translation English course at the University of Brasilia. The students were invited to take part in the research by carrying out a translation activity and answering a questionnaire with questions on the following subjects: 1) How do you evaluate the choice of the text presented in terms of the subject and the textual genre of the report 2) How do you evaluate its methodology, 3) What were the challenges and difficulties during the translation of the presented text 4) What were the expectations when identifying and learning new translation strategies, 5) What strategies were used to prepare the target text. The proposal was to present the work to the students and explain the translation activity, presenting some free support platforms to assist in the activity. Students were instructed to translate the first five pages of the text Valuing Water, made available by UNESCO. The activity was evaluated and was mandatory. The chosen activity made it possible to assess the translation capacity of each student, realizing the adaptation skills needed to perform the task. Research participants were guaranteed anonymity in their responses. This dissertation consists in introduction, which presents the theme, objectives, and justification of this investigation. In chapter 1, we describe how teaching and learning process works. In chapter 2, we discuss the concepts of technical and scientific translation, the role of the technical and scientific translator, the translator and the use of technological resources, and the relationship between translation and terminology. In Chapter 3, we present the methodology for applying the Didactic Unit and in Chapter 4, we analyze the collected data and discuss the research results. Finally, we present the final considerations and bibliographical references.

The theme of this dissertation falls within the line of research Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices, developed in the Translation Studies Program - POSTRAD, at the University of Brasília. The object of study are the terms and term signs from the area of History used in bilingual assessment processes (Portuguese-Libras), with the aim of proposing a bilingual glossary of the Portuguese – Libras language pair. To this end, we have the following specific objectives: i. describe the teaching of History to the Deaf; ii. identify the processes and theories used to organize glossaries in sign language and iii. Analyze how the term signs are registered in translation based on semantic studies. To achieve the objectives, the methodological path collected terms and term signs from the ENEM tests (National High School Exam) and the bilingual entrance exams at UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina), both from the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, both in written Portuguese and in Libras through Videoproof. Thus, starting from the search for the most used terms in the Portuguese test, we looked for the term signs translated in the Libras video tests. To catalog the most frequent terms and term signs in the database (written tests and Video tests), an inventory of the lexicon of the History area was created using knowledge and experience as a bilingual teacher, manually. We used resources that corpus linguistics offers, such as the Antconc program, with terms in Portuguese, to provide a basis and security in the survey. The entire work was theoretically based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (TCT) by Maria Tereza Cabré (1995) and also Socioterminology based on Faulstich (2006). The analysis of terms and term signs in the History area sought the principles of bilingual Terminology (TUXI, 2017) for better conceptualization and clarity when translating this linguistic pair (Portuguese/Libras), as well as in bilingual History teaching ( with an educational interpreter or bilingual teacher), examining some linguistic variations and lexical ambiguities found in the research. Finally, using the terms and term signs collected, a bilingual Portuguese/Libras de História glossary was created, launched on an online platform (website: https://glossariohistoria-libras.fly.dev/), with the aim of and as specific objectives of providing new information, generating and producing knowledge that brings improvements to the area of translation and teaching sign language.

This dissertation aimed to publicize the importance of tactile Libras in the process of translating and interpreting country music to analyze the perception of Deafblind people. During the Covid-19 pandemic period, we had some lives by country singers and among these lives, the singer Marília Mendonca was a pioneer in providing the translation into Libras of her country songs through the presence of Libras Translators and Interpreters. Given this repercussion, we thought about what translation and interpretation into tactile Libras would be like to provide cultural accessibility for the Deafblind and we have the possibility of recording their perceptions. We observed that, despite some initiatives in country music, in relation to the translation process, Surdocego does not yet have effective accessibility in tactile Libras and, therefore, it is necessary to provide new research and more studies with translations in tactile Libras, so that the Deafblind Community has access to information from this form of communication. Therefore, we seek to disseminate tactile Libras in a technical way so that Deafblind people have access to country music, as well as linguistic accessibility and guaranteed access to culture and leisure. Furthermore, the work presents the different characteristics that we can find in the world of Deafblindness and increasingly provide cultural accessibility for this segment.

Although Dom Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, written in the 17th century, was quickly translated into many languages, the first authorial translation into European Portuguese, the Monumental Edition carried out by Cia Literária do Porto, only occurred in the 19th century. Monteiro Lobato based his Don Quixote das Crianças on it, in the early 20th century, bringing the character to the Brazilian children's universe. This work was translated twice into Buenos Aires Spanish. The main objective of this work is to reconstruct the paths and strategies used by authors/translators in the works that make up the corpus of this investigation. The research is structured into three blocks that address, firstly, the subsidies necessary for its complete understanding. Among them there are the theoretical subsidies from Translation Studies such as the Polysystem Theory, developed by Itamar Even-Zohar, and Descriptive Translation Studies, represented by Gideon Toury. Literary subsides are also included, introducing Miguel de Cervantes and Dom Quixote de la Mancha, as well as the Monumental Edition and its translators: Viscount of Castilho, Viscount of Azevedo and Pinheiro Chagas. The second block deals with the social and political contexts in which the work was written and translated, introducing the author, translator, and editor Monteiro Lobato, the work under study, as well as its translators into Buenos Aires Spanish: Benjamín de Garay and M. J. de Sosa. The third and final block uses the translation analysis outline developed by Antoine Berman, combined with the analysis and description model of translations created by Lambert and Van Gorp, with the aim of identifying the position occupied by the works that make up the corpus of the research in the Brazilian and Argentine literary systems in the early 20th century. Understanding Monteiro Lobato's literary and translational thinking, as well as his translators’ ones, and the context in which Children's Don Quixote was produced and translated aims to contribute to the history of translation in Brazil, understand the conception at the time of the translator's role and the role of translated literature in shaping of Brazilian and Argentine literary systems. Furthermore, it highlights the relevance of Monteiro Lobato, not only as an author but also as a translator, editor, and promoter of Brazilian literature abroad.

The theme of this dissertation is part of the research line of Translation and Sociodiscursive Practices, developed in the Postgraduate Program in Translation Studies at the University of Brasília (POSTRAD/UnB). The object of study are the Regulatory and Warning Traffic Signs that are taught the theoretical-technical course as a prerequisite for obtaining the National Driver's License (CNH), popularly called Driver's License, with the aim of translate into Brazilian Sign Language - Libras the meaning and definition of these signs that are used nationwide in the daily life of the Deaf driver. The target audience of this research are Deaf candidates who participate in the CNH acquisition process in the Federal District, or Deaf people already qualified, as well as Sign Language Translators and Interpreters (TILS), traffic teachers and others interested in this topic. . To achieve our objective, this research aims to: i) identify the structure of the Traffic Department of the Federal District (DETRAN/DF) for the Deaf to participate in the stages of the qualification process; ii) search for teaching materials in Sign Language to obtain a CNH in Brazil; identify the translation processes that involve intersemiotics into Sign Language. In order to achieve our objectives, we divided the methodological course into the following steps: i) Approach and nature of the research; ii) Definition of the objective, target audience and constitution of the corpus; iii) Collection of image material from the plates; iii) Organization and elaboration of terminology sheets supported by the methodology of Tuxi (2017), also using QR Code technology to view the videos, facilitating the interaction of the Deaf with the translation of the plates. Finally, we suggest a macro and microstructure of a glossary based on the terminographic sheets and the translation of items from the simulated theoretical test of DETRAN/DF, addressing the content of plates, as a way of validating the research carried out. We hope that this work will expand the Terminology research space in the Studies of Translation and Interpretation of Sign Languages, in addition to encouraging new discussions and deepening studies in DETRAN's for the creation of accessible teaching materials used in the formation of the Deaf conductor.

The present research presents a translation of a chapter extracted from the novel Humus, published in 2006, by the novelist Fabienne Kanor. In view of the author's work, which is still little read and its translation in the French language degree courses, this dissertation was outlined from the presentation of a novelist novel. We start from the understanding that the process of translation, mainly of black literary texts, black thought, black essay texts by Guellwar Adún requires more than rhetorical eloquence and/or technical acuity. Request a write-up. Therefore, we chose to be guided by the writer and essayist Conceição Evaristo's notion of writing, for aligning with our demands and ours. As de Carrascosa (2017), Édouard Glissant (2021), Paul Gilroy (2001), Souza (2018), Souza (2017), Silva-Reis; Araujo (2017), Vanessa Massoni (2020) were fundamental to

add discussions to our translation. In addition, we start from a black epistemology and methodology and a place of black, decolonial and anti-racist enunciation for the translation of this narrative of black authorship. Finally, it was possible to write literary works of French expression and this reverberates in the African-American.

The present work presents a theoretical study that aims to render problematic the concept of quality in translation in Juliane House. Its realization followed the principles of comparative conceptual research, centered on the comparison between the concept of quality used by Juliane House in her model of quality assessment in translation (HOUSE, 2015) and the precepts of the main concepts of quality practiced in the discipline Quality Management of the Administration Rank. The results obtained indicate that for House “quality means equivalence and equivalence means quality”. The concept of quality retained by the author is limited to the linguistic aspect of the translation, based on the concept of linguistic equivalence, focusing on the product and executed a posteriori, after the end of the translation process; these characteristics are fully opposed to the global, broad and anticipatory concept as practiced within the scope of the Quality Management discipline. The methodology followed was based on the comparative method and the analysis of concepts.

The aim of this study is to investigate which strategies the sworn interpreter in Suriname uses when performing his work. In Suriname, the Code of Criminal Procedure states that a sworn interpreter must be present during the interrogation of a foreigner at a police station, criminal and civil hearing, at the notary and also during the solemnization of a marriage, but there are no guidelines or protocols to help the professional to carry out his work. This brings us to the interpreter's work as a language and culture mediator, as well as how he thinks he should fulfil his role as an interpreter. Since the presence of the interpreter is essential, it means that he is an important link during the communication process with the foreigner who is in Suriname and for this reason we thought it was important to make an analysis about the way in which the interpreters who are working with the Dutch and Portuguese languages have performed their work so far and for this it is important for us to know what skills the interpreter has. In Suriname the sworn interpreter does not work only in the legal area, but since his work shows many similarities with that of the forensic interpreter, the professional who performs work at the court hearing and in judicial spaces, we have sought support with the theory of Hale (2004) but also with other authors such as Nordin and de Almeida (2017), Lebese (2013), and Gonzalez et al. (1991). In order to carry out this study, a qualitative research was carried out among the small group of interpreters who work with the Dutch and Portuguese languages in order to find out which strategies they apply while working as well as with the parties who have to make use of the work of these professionals. From this analysis we have been able to identify that the sworn interpreter works according to his own intuition and competences. Finally, we proposed a protocol for interpreting based on Codes of Ethics used by the Professional Association of Conference Interpreters in Brazil (APIC) and the Code of Ethics and Conduct of the Australian Institute of Translators and Interpreters (AUSIT). The proposed protocol can serve as a guideline for the interpreters who have been working in this field for some time so that they can continue their work in a uniform manner, as well as for the new generation of interpreters so that they can already start their work in a uniform way.