Quite from english into portuguese: a corpus-based translation study

Abstract

This thesis reports findings about translations into Portuguese of 278 quite occurrences. The present research was carried out in a Corpus-Based Translation Studies perspective thus, the study also provides some concepts of Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies. Every quite occurrence was annotated into three distinct variables, namely: Morphosyntactic, Translation Forms and Translational Correspondences for the purpose of investigating how the occurrences of quite are rendered into Portuguese in COMPARA parallel corpus. The referred corpus is composed of original and translated literary texts and it was selected in English-Portuguese translation direction. In short, this work achieved useful findings and it could come up with some suggestions to meet this patterns, like observing collocations and their translations. Moreover, it could also point out the contraints in finding translation patterns from analyzing the source language morphosyntactic structures.