Illocutionary power in two translations of "Dubliners": a comparative analysis

Abstract

This work is inserted in the Translation Studies area with emphasis on literature and aims at investigating illocutionary power, according to Lefevere, on two different translations of James Joyce's short stories. Illocutionary power is described by Lefevere as a part of the text that does not only carry a semantical or linguistic meaning, but is added to cause an effect on the reader. Through corpus research we will examine the occurrence of illocutionary power in the Brazilian Portuguese translations by Guilherme Braga and José Roberto O'Shea of the respective Joyce's short stories from Dubliners: Araby, Eveline and The Dead. We also analyze how these occurrences impact the text, how each translator deals with it and the effects it may cause in the translations.