O léxico como representação cultural em traduções de As vinhas de ira

Abstract

This dissertation examines aspects of oral language such as those represented in the speech of the Okies, characters created by John Steinbeck on his masterpiece The grapes of wrath, in contrast with two translations in Portuguese, both translated by Herbert Caro and Ernesto Vinhaes (As vinhas da ira, 1982 and 2008). Besides that, an analysis will be focusing especially on lexical creations by the author and on translation strategies chosen to represent the oral language from that time and place portrayed in the plot, as well as on identifying and classifying the translation procedures.