Neological and ideological aspects in the lexicon's translation in web news

Abstract

Understanding the production and the journalistic translation as essential to disseminate the lexicon in a linguistic community, this study aims to analyze the strategies utilized in the translation of lexical units in journalistic opinion articles (stable sources of translation) contrasting with the strategies applied in the translation of news articles (unstable sources of translation). To this end, the study sought to investigate the “translation marks” in the translation of texts from Portuguese to Spanish of the newspapers El País and Folha de S. Paulo, in addition to discussing the neological and ideological aspects involved in the translation of such texts. We are guided by the works of Lara (2006), Borba (2006), Hernández Guerrero (2011), Bielsa (2016), and Simão e Stupiello (2017), to discuss the lexical matters involved in the journalistic translation’s sphere. To address the neological process, we rely on Correia and Almeida (2012), as well as Mittmann (1999) and Venuti (2002) to discursive matters addressed in the translation field. In the analysis, we started with the hypothesis that different textual typologies might influence the use of different translation strategies, as seen in the literature in the field. Using a contrastive methodology to analyze the translation of the lexicon in the two genres addressed (informative and opinion texts), the results suggested the possibility that the ideological perceptions of the author and the translator regarding the cultures for which they write may differ. We also observed something rarely seen in the sphere of translation, especially in journalism: the visibility of the translator manifested through translation markers.