This thesis aims to elucidate the translation process by devising a way of retrieving evidence of this process from its output. It further aims to assess the claims made by some scholars concerning the possible existence of Translation Universals. In order to isolate the interaction of texts and contexts, a corpus of American short stories was created, with their translations into Persian published after the 1979 Revolution. Three complementary methodologies gave a rounded picture: (1) Corpus-based Descriptive Translation Studies; (2) The pragmatic and rhetorically-based approach of Thinking Translation devised at St Andrews; and ‎(3) The analytical framework mostly established by Halliday in his Systemic Functional Grammar.‎ Approaching the process of translation in the specific order devised in this thesis provided four vantage points to analyse the data in a systematic way from linguistic, discourse, cultural and literary views before reaching what are at once the most personal and most characteristic aspects of a translator's work. The research begins with a literature review of the field and an account of linguistic constraints and of all Translation Universals hypothesised so far, followed by an extensive analysis of data in two consecutive chapters. With reference to the choices made in this corpus, it is discussed in the Conclusions chapter that most of the Translation Universals so far claimed are not in fact universal. It is the role of the translator which has emerged as the determining factor in producing a translated text, and thus as the key to resolving the issues explored in this thesis. It seems there are no constraints beyond the translator's reach, and there are no parameters which do not involve the translator, who introduces his or her own choices, or manipulates certain parameters. Only when they have done so, will the translation, as both process and product, be accomplished.

[pt] A proposta desta pesquisa, informada pelo paradigma teórico dos Descriptive Translation Studies, foi examinar três traduções para o inglês de romances brasileiros contemporâneos feitas pelo professor e tradutor norte- americano Clifford Landers, tendo em vista os seguintes objetivos: (i) verificar, mediante uma análise contrastiva das estratégias utilizadas por Landers na tradução de itens especificamente culturais, se essas traduções têm como efeito resultante um apagamento ou uma acentuação dos elementos culturais brasileiros a partir do ponto de vista da cultura receptora, e (ii) investigar qual é a imagem do Brasil projetada no pólo receptor norte-americano por meio dessas obras traduzidas, buscando avaliar se tais traduções desmentem, perpetuam ou geram representações culturais estereotipadas do Brasil. Além disso, sempre que pertinente aos objetivos da pesquisa, analisei a prática tradutória de Landers a fim de avaliar, dentre outras questões, em que medida sua prática se coaduna com suas próprias teorizações, divulgadas em livros, artigos e comunicações pessoais. / [en] Having the Descriptive Translation Studies as a theoretical framework, in this research I analysed the English translations of three Brazilian contemporary novels, all made by the American translator Clifford Landers. The purpose of it was to (i) analyse the strategies employed by Landers in translating textual elements known as culture-specific items, so as to infer if such strategies resulted either in the detachment or in the approximation, from the point of view of the target culture, of Brazilian culture as signaled by these kind of textual elements and (ii) to investigate the resulting representation of Brazilian culture by these translations, trying to infer if such texts create, deny or confirm stereotyped representations of Brazilian culture. Besides, whenever pertinent to the objectives of this research, I reviewed Lander`s translational practice, taking into account, amongt other issues, if his practice matches with his own theorization, published in books, papers or personal communications.

Esse trabalho visa examinar o potencial e o impacto da recepção, na Alemanha, do livro Quarto de Despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus (Sacramento, 14 de março de 1914 São Paulo, 13 de fevereiro de 1977), valendo-se para tanto de resenhas de jornais alemães publicadas sobre a obra e a autora para reunir elementos que nos possibilitem entender como e por meio de quais recursos e agentes, a tradução de Quarto de despejo alcançou sete edições naquele país. A moldura teórica para a esta pesquisa fundamenta-se nos Estudos Descritivos da Tradução - (TOURY 1995), (LÉFEVÈRE, 1992) e a teoria dos polissistemas de Even-Zohar (1979); bem como o conceito de paratexto de Genette (1987) - que marcam na década de 1970 uma mudança na maneira de estudar e entender a tradução de literatura, depositando seu foco no produto do traduzir, em seu público alvo e recepção. Também pilar dessa pesquisa é o trabalho com o corpus que tem por base a Linguística de Corpus que viabilizou a identificação de palavras-chave nos textos estudados. Estas nos permitiram mapear eixos temáticos, a partir dos quais apontamos aqui algumas condicionantes da recepção da obra, tanto em uma perspectiva sincrônica ao examinar cada texto em particular, quanto diacrônica ao estudar a evolução de conceitos no tempo. Estas condicionantes evidenciaram, a partir da repercussão de Quarto de Despejo e de Carolina de Jesus, um deslocamento do interesse na recepção da literatura brasileira traduzida na Alemanha do exotismo para a denúncia social. / This paper aims at examining the potential and impact of the book reception Quarto de despejo (Child of the Dark) by Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914 1977) in Germany, by making use of German newspaper reviews published on the work and life of the author, in search of elements to understand how and by which resources and agents, the translation of Quarto de despejo hired seven editions in that country. The theoretical framework for this research is based on the Descriptive Translation Studies - (TOURY 1995), (LÉFEVÈRE, 1992), Even-Zohar\'s (1979) polisystems theory, Genette\'s (1987) paratext concept - and working with the corpus that is based on the Corpus Linguistics. The latter enabled the identification of key words in the studied texts, which allowed us to map out possible themes, from which we point out some conditions of the works reception, both on a synchronic perspective to examine each text in particular, and on a diachronic one to study the evolution of concepts in time. These conditions showed, based on the repercussion of Quarto de Despejo and its author Carolina Maria de Jesus, a transition on the brazilian literature reception interest in Germany from exotism to social denounce.

[pt] Esta dissertação propõe-se a analisar reescritas brasileiras do conto Chapeuzinho Vermelho, cânone da literatura infantojuvenil. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, toma como texto fonte a versão francesa de Charles Perrault (século XVII), o primeiro no Ocidente a registrar oficialmente essa e outras histórias da tradição oral na literatura escrita. Com base nos Estudos Descritivos da Tradução e nos pressupostos teóricos de André Lefevere, procura-se discutir alguns aspectos presentes no sistema literário francês do século XVII, e analisar como o conto foi reescrito no sistema literário brasileiro em dois momentos distintos: em um período de desenvolvimento inicial da literatura infantojuvenil nacional (final do século XIX e início do século XX) e na contemporaneidade (século XXI), quando diversas reescritas foram elaboradas por tradutores e adaptadores brasileiros consagrados na área da tradução e/ou da literatura. São analisadas as reescritas de Figueiredo Pimentel (2006; 1911 [1896]), Monteiro Lobato (2007 [1934]), Katia Canton (2005), Mário Laranjeira (2007), Walcyr Carrasco (2009), Maria Luiza Borges (2010), Ivone Benedetti (2012) e Rosa Freire d’Aguiar (2012 [2007]). Também fazem parte do corpus da pesquisa textos (prefácios, posfácios, cartas, entrevistas, etc.) em que se busca examinar concepções de tradução, assim como fatores culturais, linguísticos e ideológicos que interferiram nas escolhas dos tradutores, e ainda o efeito potencial dessas escolhas nas diferentes épocas, considerando que as reescritas estão inseridas em contextos de ideologia e poder. / [en] This thesis intends to analyze Brazilian rewritings of the tale Chapeuzinho Vermelho, a canonical text in children’s literature. This research, of qualitative character, takes as source text the French version written by Charles Perrault (17th century), the first author in the West to officially register this and other stories of oral tradition in the written literature. Based on the Descriptive Translation Studies and the theoretical assumptions of André Lefevere, we will discuss some aspects found in the French literary system of the 17th century, and investigate how the tale has been rewritten in the Brazilian literary system in two different moments: in the initial stages of the development of the national children’s literature (at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century) and in the 21st century, when different rewritings have been done by Brazilian translators and adaptors renowned in the area of translation and/or literature. The analysis focuses on rewritings by the following authors: Figueiredo Pimentel (2006; 1911 [1896]), Monteiro Lobato (2007 [1934]), Katia Canton (2005), Mário Laranjeira (2007), Walcyr Carrasco (2009), Maria Luiza Borges (2010), Ivone Benedetti (2012) and Rosa Freire d’Aguiar (2012 [2007]). The corpus of this research also includes texts such as prefaces, postfaces, letters and interviews, through which we intend to examine not only conceptions of translation but also cultural, linguistic and ideological factors that interfered in the translators’ choices, and the potential effect of those choices in different times, considering that the rewritings are inserted in contexts of ideology and power.

[pt] A tradução de clássicos feita diretamente a partir do seu idioma original tornou-se um grande chamariz para os leitores. Assim, obras literárias já conhecidas há muito tempo do público brasileiro através de traduções indiretas, principalmente do inglês e do francês, estão sendo reapresentadas agora sob a forma de traduções diretas. Diante do impacto da literatura russa no Ocidente a partir do final do século 19, esta dissertação tem como objeto de estudo as traduções diretas e indiretas para o português de dois grandes autores russos, Tolstói e Dostoiévski, tomando como base a teoria dos polissistemas (Even- Zohar, 1990) e os Estudos Descritivos da Tradução (Toury, 1995; Lefevere, 1992). A partir de comentários elaborados por teóricos e estudiosos da literatura, críticos e tradutores, procura-se determinar a imagem desses autores e de suas respectivas obras - e também da própria literatura russa como um todo - construída por essas traduções, bem como verificar em que medida a imagem resultante das traduções diretas recentemente publicadas difere daquela produzida pelas transposições indiretas. / [en] Direct translations of classic works from the original language have become a major factor used by the publishing industry to attract the reading public. Thus, literary works that had originally reached the Brazilian reading public via indirect translations, primarily from an English or French source text, are now being rendered into Portuguese directly from Russian originals. Considering the impact that Russian literature had in the Western world when it started to circulate in translation in the late 19th century, this thesis focuses on direct and indirect translations into Portuguese of the work of two great Russian authors, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoievsky. The study is informed by polysystem theory (Even-Zohar 1990) and Descriptive Translation Studies (Toury, 1995; Lefevere, 1992) and aims, through the analysis of comments produced by literary theoreticians, scholars, critics, and translators, both to determine the image of these authors and their respective works - and of Russian Literature as a whole - that was constructed by these translations and to verify to what extent the image resulting from recent direct translations from the original Russian texts differs from that which was produced by indirect renderings.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-20T14:27:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3026287 bytes, checksum: 1629bccc42423e5fec21208370d9c0cc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-20T14:27:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3026287 bytes, checksum: 1629bccc42423e5fec21208370d9c0cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-04 / This work aims to investigate the circumstances surrounding the practice and publication of literary translations in the periodical press of the Northeast of Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century, based on the magazines O Archivo (Maranhão, 1846) and Revista Americana (Bahia, 1847-1848). In both magazines, we identified 47 translations of literature. To present this panorama, we treat the corpus based on the theoretical and methodological concept, Cultural Transfer, by Michel Espagne (2012), and the economic and ideological view handled by Pierre Bourdieu through the work of Joseph Jurt (2007). Focusing on the support where these translations were propagated – the magazine – the works of Socorro de Fatima Pacífico Barbosa (2007), Katia Aily Franco de Camargo (2014), and Tania Regina de Luca (2008; 2014) about the periodical press guided us. Initially we present a quantitative corpus analysis based on the work of Lüsebrink and Reichardt (1994), aiming to approach the translation scenery in periodical press of the nineteenth century. Then, we present a descriptive analysis of each literary translations found, having as a starting point the schematic picture adapted from Lambert (2011). Therefore, we investigated the cultural mediation instances through contextual analysis of the translations identified in the two magazines, in association with their respective contexts and source texts, in order to present a mosaic of the foreign cultural memory present in the Northeast of Brazil in the nineteenth century. The work is divided into four chapters: in Chapter 1, we present an introductory look at literature and translation in the context of periodical press in the Northeast of Brazil in the nineteenth century; in Chapter 2 is a brief historical background of the periodical press in the nineteenth century, concerning O Archivo and Revista Americana; in Chapter 3, we present an overview of the translations of literature found in both magazines, exposing a quantitative map of what was translated regarding literature; finally, in Chapter 4, we present a descriptive analysis of the translations of literature found, characterizing the translation practices and strategies, demonstrating the importance of translating for the formation of the cultural and social context and for the formation of the national literature canon. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral a investigação das circunstâncias que envolvem a prática e a publicação de traduções de literatura na imprensa periódica do antigo Norte brasileiro de meados do século XIX, tendo como referência as revistas O Archivo (Maranhão, 1846) e Revista Americana (Bahia, 1847-1848). Nas duas revistas, identificamos 47 traduções de literatura ao todo. Para apresentar tal panorama, tratamos do corpus com base no conceito teórico-metodológico de Transferências Culturais de Michel Espagne (2012), e no viés econômico-ideológico tratado por Pierre Bourdieu através do trabalho de Joseph Jurt (2007). Sem perder de vista o suporte em que foram veiculadas essas traduções – revista –, nos pautaremos principalmente nos trabalhos de Socorro de Fátima Pacífico Barbosa (2007), Katia Aily Franco de Camargo (2014), e Tânia Regina de Luca (2008; 2014) acerca da imprensa periódica. Dessa maneira, apresentamos inicialmente uma análise quantitativa do corpus com base no trabalho de Lüsebrink e Reichardt (1994), visando nos aproximar do cenário de tradução e imprensa periódica do século XIX, cenário este que nos aprofundamos ao expor a análise descritiva de cada uma das traduções, cujo ponto inicial será o quadro esquemático adaptado de Lambert (2011). Sendo assim, procuramos investigar as instâncias de mediação cultural através da análise contextual das traduções identificadas nas revistas supracitadas, em relação aos seus respectivos contextos e textos de partida, visando identificar o caminho percorrido entre os espaços de partida e chegada para apresentar um mosaico da memória cultural estrangeira presente no antigo Norte brasileiro do século XIX. Isso posto, o presente trabalho encontra-se dividido em quatro capítulos: no Capítulo 1, apresentamos um olhar introdutório sobre literatura e tradução no contexto de periódicos do antigo Norte brasileiro no século XIX; no Capítulo 2, apresentamos um breve cenário histórico da imprensa periódica no século XIX, situando as revistas maranhense e baiana; no Capítulo 3, apresentamos um panorama geral das traduções de literatura encontradas em ambas, expondo um mapeamento quantitativo do que era traduzido nas duas revistas no tocante à literatura; por fim, no Capítulo 4, apresentamos uma análise descritiva das traduções de literatura encontradas, caracterizando práticas e estratégias tradutórias e demonstrando a importância de traduzir para a formação do contexto cultural e social e para a formação do próprio cânone de literatura nacional.

Esse trabalho visa examinar o potencial e o impacto da recepção, na Alemanha, do livro Quarto de Despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus (Sacramento, 14 de março de 1914 São Paulo, 13 de fevereiro de 1977), valendo-se para tanto de resenhas de jornais alemães publicadas sobre a obra e a autora para reunir elementos que nos possibilitem entender como e por meio de quais recursos e agentes, a tradução de Quarto de despejo alcançou sete edições naquele país. A moldura teórica para a esta pesquisa fundamenta-se nos Estudos Descritivos da Tradução - (TOURY 1995), (LÉFEVÈRE, 1992) e a teoria dos polissistemas de Even-Zohar (1979); bem como o conceito de paratexto de Genette (1987) - que marcam na década de 1970 uma mudança na maneira de estudar e entender a tradução de literatura, depositando seu foco no produto do traduzir, em seu público alvo e recepção. Também pilar dessa pesquisa é o trabalho com o corpus que tem por base a Linguística de Corpus que viabilizou a identificação de palavras-chave nos textos estudados. Estas nos permitiram mapear eixos temáticos, a partir dos quais apontamos aqui algumas condicionantes da recepção da obra, tanto em uma perspectiva sincrônica ao examinar cada texto em particular, quanto diacrônica ao estudar a evolução de conceitos no tempo. Estas condicionantes evidenciaram, a partir da repercussão de Quarto de Despejo e de Carolina de Jesus, um deslocamento do interesse na recepção da literatura brasileira traduzida na Alemanha do exotismo para a denúncia social. / This paper aims at examining the potential and impact of the book reception Quarto de despejo (Child of the Dark) by Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914 1977) in Germany, by making use of German newspaper reviews published on the work and life of the author, in search of elements to understand how and by which resources and agents, the translation of Quarto de despejo hired seven editions in that country. The theoretical framework for this research is based on the Descriptive Translation Studies - (TOURY 1995), (LÉFEVÈRE, 1992), Even-Zohar\'s (1979) polisystems theory, Genette\'s (1987) paratext concept - and working with the corpus that is based on the Corpus Linguistics. The latter enabled the identification of key words in the studied texts, which allowed us to map out possible themes, from which we point out some conditions of the works reception, both on a synchronic perspective to examine each text in particular, and on a diachronic one to study the evolution of concepts in time. These conditions showed, based on the repercussion of Quarto de Despejo and its author Carolina Maria de Jesus, a transition on the brazilian literature reception interest in Germany from exotism to social denounce.

This thesis examines the trans-border circulation and production of feminist knowledge through translation. More specifically, my research focuses the translation of the U.S. women’s health book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, by a Chinese feminist NGO in 1998. My dissertation studies the social, cultural and political aspects of feminist translation, and examines the relation between translation and feminist praxis. Through the lens of gender and (feminist) health politics in 1990s China, I examine how the 1998 Chinese translation conveys the book’s message about how women should relate to their bodies. Set in the context of Chinese society opening up during the late 1970s, my research outlines the emergence of gender awareness in China with the influx of translated feminist texts, especially in the realm of women’s health research. Medical discourses were then assigned a privileged position in the studies of women’s sexual and reproductive health. However, with increased communications between Chinese and foreign feminists, Chinese women scholars developed new ideas around women’s sexual and reproductive health. The Chinese translation of OBOS addresses the lack of gender awareness in local discussions about women’s health. With a multi-method study, I emphasize the social and linguistic dimensions of translating a feminist health project into post-reform China. This study is based on both interview and comparative textual analysis data. Using feminist translation theories, I examine how the Chinese translators handled the book’s presentation of women’s sexuality and reproductive health. This thesis also highlights the constraints on translating feminism from the local context. This raises questions about the power of (feminist) translation, and emphasizes the need to examine the social-political context of translation practices.

The study adopts a theory of Descriptive Translation Studies to undertake a comparative analysis of stylistic devices in Shakespeare’s two plays, Julius Caesar and Macbeth and their Xitsonga translations. It contextualises its research aim and objectives after outlining a sequential account of theory development in the discipline of translation; and arrives at the desired and suitable tools for data collection and analysis.Through textual observation and notes of reading, the current study argues that researchers and scholars in the discipline converge when it comes to a dire need for translation strategies, but diverge in their classification and particular application for convenience in translating and translation. This study maintains that the translation strategies should be grouped into explicitation, normalisation and simplification, where each is assigned specific translation procedures. The study demonstrates that explicitation and normalisation translation strategies are best suited in dealing with translation constraints at a microtextual level. The sampled excerpts from both plays were examined on the preference for the analytical framework based on subjective sameness within a Skopos theory. The current study acknowledges that there is no single way of translating a play from one culture to the other. It also acknowledges that there appears to be no way the translator can refrain from the influence of the source text, as an inherent cultural feature that makes it unique. With no sure way of managing stylistic devices as translation constraints, translation as a problem-solving process requires creativity, a demonstration of mastery of language and style of the author of the source text, as well as a power drive characterised by the aspects of interlingual psychological balance of power and knowledge power. These aspects will help the translator to manage whatever translation brief(s) better, and arrive at a product that is accessible, accurate and acceptable to the target readership. They will also ensure that the translator maintains a balance between the two languages in contact, in order to guard against domination of one language over the other. The current study concludes that the Skopos theory has a larger influence in dealing with anticipating the context of the target readership as a factor that can introduce high risk when assessing the communicability conditions for the translated message. Contrariwise, when dealing with stylistic devices and employ literal translation as a translation procedure to simplification, the translator only aims at simplifying the language and making it accessible for the sake of ‘accessibility’ as it remains a product with communicative inadequacies. The study also concludes by maintaining that translation is not only transcoding, but the activity that calls for the translator’s creativity in order to identify and analyse the constraints encountered and decide on the corresponding translation strategies. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

By combing DTS with a three-dimensional model adapted from DHA, we aim to study the discursive construction of national identities in (political) diplomatic discourse between China and the West, from a translation perspective. Specifically, we examine the translation of national affiliations and forms of address between 1792 and 1867, when China was experiencing a national identity crisis. We describe and explain what and how the Chinese and Western national identities were constructed by translation, using mainly qualitative analysis, supported at times by quantitative analysis. We also investigate the extent to which translators have aligned themselves with the governments they served, and the norm they followed before and during the identity crisis. Traditionally, discourse-historical approach (DHA) has typically been applied to study the discursive construction of national identity in political discourse. However, DHA has not yet taken into account the phenomenon of translation, though translation is an important tool for constructing and promoting national identities. Meanwhile, translation studies (TS) on national identity have traditionally not adopted DHA, though DHA has been typically applied to study the construction of national identity in political discourse. Moreover, TS on national identity often focuses on linguistic and political tensions within a bilingual or multilingual nation or institution. However, national discourse in intercultural clashes between two distinct countries also remains to be explored. Our corpus is collected from historical discourse in diplomatic missions and discourse of diplomatic officials, which consists of 29 letters and proclamations with a total word count of 25,794. The results of this study show that the affiliations of translators shaped their translation strategies in constructing national identity. Translators who claimed allegiance to the Qing court tended to follow the norm of tributary discourse to construct a discourse where the Chinese national identity appeared superior and Sinocentric, while the Western national identity appeared inferior and subordinate. However, norms are not fixed but open to change. During the Chinese national identity crisis, the gradual change in translation regularities and the abolition of certain discursive practices via an official statement from the authorities reflected a weakening of the norm of tributary discourse. This evolution of the norm could reflect, at least in part, China’s changing attitude toward the West and the transformation of Chinese national identity. Our study contributes to PDA, political discourse translation, and translation history. Firstly, it extends the traditionally monolingual application of DHA to the bilingual context of DTS, proving that the discipline of (D)TS and DHA benefit from interdisciplinary cooperation, thus pointing to a promising direction in PDA and political discourse translation. Secondly, our study enriches TS on identity and ideology by studying different forms of power struggles in political discourse, thus enlarging the variety of political discourse and advancing a more extensive PDA. Thirdly, our study provides refreshing insights into textual markers, namely, national affiliations, nominal and pronominal forms of address, for studying identity issues in translated political discourse. Last but not least, our study contributes to the studies in the translation history of 19th-century China. / En combinant les études descriptives de la traduction (DTS) avec un modèle tridimensionnel adapté de l’approche historique-discursive (DHA), nous visons à étudier la construction discursive des identités nationales dans le discours diplomatique (politique) entre la Chine et l’Occident, du point de vue de la traduction. Plus précisément, nous examinons la traduction des affiliations nationales et des formes d’adresse dans le discours diplomatique (politique) entre 1792 et 1867, alors que la Chine traversait une crise d’identité nationale. Nous décrivons et expliquons comment les identités nationales chinoises et occidentales ont été construites par la traduction, en utilisant principalement une analyse qualitative, parfois soutenue par une analyse quantitative. Nous étudions également dans quelle mesure les traducteurs se sont alignés sur les gouvernements qu’ils servaient et la norme qu’ils suivaient avant et pendant la crise d’identité. Traditionnellement, l’DHA a été appliquée pour étudier la construction discursive de l’identité nationale dans le discours politique. Cependant, l’DHA n’a pas encore pris en compte le phénomène de la traduction, bien que la traduction soit un outil important pour la construction et la promotion des identités nationales. Par ailleurs, les études de traduction (TS) sur l’identité nationale n’ont généralement pas adopté l’DHA, bien que l’DHA ait été typiquement appliquée pour étudier la construction de l’identité nationale dans le discours politique. En outre, les TS sur l’identité nationale se concentrent souvent sur les tensions linguistiques et politiques au sein d’une nation ou d’une institution bilingue ou multilingue. Cependant, le discours national dans les conflits interculturels entre deux pays distincts reste également à explorer. Notre corpus est recueilli à partir du discours historique dans les missions diplomatiques et le discours des fonctionnaires diplomatique, qui se compose de 29 lettres et proclamations, avec un nombre total de mots de 25794. Les résultats de cette étude montrent que les affiliations des traducteurs ont influencé leurs stratégies de traduction dans la construction de l’identité nationale. Les traducteurs qui se réclamaient allégeance à la cour Qing avaient tendance à suivre la norme du discours tributaire pour construire un discours où l’identité nationale chinoise apparaissait supérieure et sinocentrique, tandis que l’identité nationale occidentale apparaissait inférieure et subordonnée. Toutefois, la norme n’était pas figée mais susceptible d’évoluer. Pandent la crise de l’identité nationale chinoise, le changement progressif des régularités de traduction et l’abolition de certaines pratiques discursives par une déclaration officielle des autorités reflétaient un affaiblissement de la norme du discours tributaire. Cette évolution de la norme pourrait refléter, au moins en partie, le changement de l’attitude de la Chine envers l’Occident et la transformation de l’identité nationale chinoise. Notre étude contribue à l’analyse discours politique (PDA), à la traduction du discours politique et à l’histoire de la traduction. Premièrement, elle étend l’application traditionnellement monolingue de l’DHA au contexte bilingue des DTS, prouvant que la discipline des (D)TS et de l’DHA bénéficient de la coopération interdisciplinaire, indiquant ainsi une direction prometteuse pour l’PDA et la traduction du discours politique. Deuxièmement, notre étude enrichit les TS sur l’identité et l’idéologie en étudiant différentes formes de luttes de pouvoir dans le discours politique, élargissant ainsi la variété du discours politique et faisant progresser le PDA plus étendue. Troisièmement, notre étude apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les marqueurs textuels, à savoir les affiliations nationales, les formes nominales et pronominales de l’adresse, pour étudier les problèmes d’identité dans le discours politique traduit. Enfin, notre étude contribue aux études sur l’histoire de la traduction en Chine au 19ème siècle.