Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria de Fatima Mendes.pdf: 31587343 bytes, checksum: 4361c06befa3923e03eeb1c5a75ab12d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-01 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This thesis belongs to the line of research History and Description of the Portuguese Language and focuses on the linguistic and argumentative resources used by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, in his Cartas Chilenas, by means of a Linguistic Historiography, following the principles of contextualization, immanence and adequacy, proposed by Konrad Koerner (1996). Therefore, it is a study that addresses the arguments and figures of speech present in the poem gonzaguiano, to observe how these categories can move the passions in the listener, with the intention of alerting and becoming aware people from Minas Gerais state in the mid-eighteenth century with regard to the events. These elements are studied in light of the works of George Campbell and Luis Antônio Verney, philosophers of the eighteenth century. In this case, the principle of immanence is followed. The author s spirit of time is reconstructed, so the principle of contextualization is respected. For the modern reader s better understanding is presented the work Tratado da Argumentação: A Nova Retórica of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca to demonstrated how these categories are seen nowadays. Thus, the principle of adequacy is also applied. The research aims to examine, based on the presuppositions of the Linguistic Historiography, the relation between the linguistic marks of the Cartas Chilenas and the Brazilian historical context of the eighteenth century, to identify the argumentative resources used by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga and to point the particularities of the argumentation and of the figures of speech, in the work, starting from Classic Rhetoric Considering the results, we can say that, in the analyzed work, Gonzaga looked for in the enlightenment ideals subsidies to write his poem denouncing the despotism in the eighteenth century in that Brazil was still controlled by Portugal. The comical and satirical aspect was also an argumentative strategy used by the poet in order to attack the corruption in Villa Rica due to governor Cunha Meneses s bad administration. For persuading the reader, the poet used the arguments of probability or verisimilitude; of plausibility; the importance of ideas; the proximity of time;f the connection of place; the relation of the persons and the interest in the consequences, as the figures climax, correction, vision, exclamation, apostrophe, question mark, antonomasia, synecdoche, metonymy, euphemism, antithesis, repetition and amplification. The study also shows that the Cartas Chilenas reflect the ideology of the time / Esta tese insere-se na linha de pesquisa História e Descrição da Língua Portuguesa e focaliza os recursos linguísticos e argumentativos utilizados por Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, em sua obra Cartas Chilenas, numa abordagem da Historiografia Linguística, seguindo os princípios da contextualização, imanência e adequação, propostos por Konrad Koerner (1996). Assim, é um estudo em que se abordam os argumentos e as figuras de retórica presentes no poema gonzaguiano, para observar como essas categorias podem mover as paixões no ouvinte, com a intenção de alertar e conscientizar a população mineira dos meados do século XVIII com relação aos acontecimentos. Esses elementos são estudados à luz das obras de George Campbell e Luís Antônio Verney, filósofos do século XVIII. No caso, o princípio da imanência é seguido. Para se situar o autor e sua obra, o espírito de época é reconstruído, portanto, o princípio da contextualização é respeitado. Para o entendimento melhor do leitor moderno é apresentada a obra Tratado da Argumentação: A Nova Retórica de Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca que mostra como essas categorias são vistas atualmente. Assim, o princípio da adequação é também aplicado. A pesquisa tem como objetivos examinar, com base nos pressupostos da Historiografia Linguística, a relação entre as marcas linguísticas das Cartas Chilenas e o contexto histórico brasileiro do setecentismo, identificar os recursos argumentativos utilizados por Tomás Antônio Gonzaga e apontar as particularidades da argumentação e das figuras de retórica, na obra, a partir da Retórica Clássica. Considerando os resultados obtidos, pode-se afirmar que, na obra analisada, Gonzaga buscou nos ideais iluministas subsídios para escrever seu poema, denunciando o despotismo vigente do século XVIII, em que o Brasil ainda estava em poder de Portugal. O aspecto cômico e satírico foi também uma estratégia argumentativa utilizada pelo poeta com o objetivo de atacar a corrupção existente em Vila Rica devido à má administração do governador Cunha Meneses. Para obter a persuasão do leitor, o poeta utilizou-se dos argumentos de probabilidade ou verossimilhança; de plausibilidade; da importância das ideias; da proximidade do tempo; da conexão de lugar; da relação das pessoas interessadas e do interesse nas consequências, assim como as figuras clímax, correção, visão, exclamação, apóstrofe, interrogação, antonomásia, sinédoque, metonímia, eufemismo, antítese, amplificação e repetição. O estudo mostra também que as Cartas Chilenas refletem a ideologia da época

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The social transformations that the world has faced, due to distance reduction between rural and urban areas or the increase in the use of technologies, have linked several individuals’ social activities to writing practice. Teaching strategies adopted at schools had to be rethought as a consequence of such social dynamic, a change that was reinforced by the progress of scientific studies within the educational field. As a result, teachers have to seek new ways for promoting their students’ social inclusion by adopting different teaching strategies at schools. This paper arises from this movement towards the improvement of student’s performance when using Portuguese Language. Thus, this report presents the results of a pedagogical intervention in the 9th grade class of elementary education of Alfredo Montes State School (CEAM), in Nossa Senhora do Socorro city – state of Sergipe – that showed demands for better written production. This research was developed in the ambit of the Professional Master’s Degree in Portuguese Language – PROFLETRAS, São Cristóvão campus, of Federal University of Sergipe, and it was conducted according to action research methodology by Tripp (2005), having as its focus the students’ written contextual adequacy. We started from the hypothesis that retextualization could help decrease the classroom’s demands. The intervention aim was the students’ written competences development, by adopting retextualization as a strategy for comparative teaching of written genre, offering an opportunity to create news from a short story. For this, we prepared a Pedagogical Activities Notebook for students that contains teacher’s guidance, which was incorporated into a Didactic Sequence created by performing an intersection between the sequences of Cosson (2016) and Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly (2004), aiming to attenuate the identified difficulty within the mentioned class. The Notebook and the Didactic Sequence were produced based upon the theoretical and methodological approaches of Bronckart (2006), concerning the Socio-discursive Interactionism, whose text concept was adopted, regulating the treatment granted to other studies, for instance retextualization by Dell’Isola (2007) and Marcuschi (2010); contextualization by Koch and Elias (2015b), Baltar (2003) and Lima (2010); reading strategies by Solé (1998) and Koch and Elias (2015a), also suggestions about text production by Passarelli (2012). In addition to that, the interactive correction by Soares (2009) and official documents suggestions that guide teacher’s professional practice, such as National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and the Portuguese National Curricular Parameters (PCNLP). The results revealed that the production of texts in a direct language is a complex task for those students who are not accustomed to write objectively, and that this practice has to be provided regularly at schools, in order to offer students the opportunity to learn other languages effectively. Finally, the research participants’ text productions showed different levels of contextual and genre adequacies, according to the adopted text evaluation criteria, indicating that the systematized teaching of retextualization is a viable way for leading them to write in a contextualized manner. / As transformações sociais pelas quais o mundo passou, em decorrência da diminuição da fronteira entre o rural e o urbano ou do crescimento no uso de tecnologias, entrelaçaram muitas atividades sociais dos indivíduos à prática da escrita. As estratégias de ensino adotadas nas escolas precisaram ser revistas devido a essa dinâmica social, mudança que foi reforçada pelo progresso dos estudos científicos na área da educação. Disso, decorre que os docentes precisam buscar novas formas de favorecer a inserção social de seus alunos, por meio da adoção de diferentes estratégias de ensino no ambiente escolar. Este trabalho surge desse movimento que almeja a melhoria do desempenho de estudantes no manuseio da Língua Portuguesa. Nesse sentido, este relatório apresenta os resultados de uma intervenção pedagógica, realizada na turma do nono ano do Ensino Fundamental do Colégio Estadual Alfredo Montes (CEAM), da Cidade de Nossa Senhora do Socorro-SE, que demonstrou demandas na produção escrita. Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Letras – PROFLETRAS, Unidade São Cristóvão, da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, e foi conduzida conforme a metodologia da pesquisa-ação de Tripp (2005), tendo como foco de pesquisa a adequação contextual escrita desses alunos. Partimos da hipótese de que a retextualização contribui para minimizar as demandas da turma. Assim, o objetivo da intervenção foi o desenvolvimento de competências escritas dos discentes, por meio da retextualização que foi usada como uma estratégia para o ensino comparado entre gêneros escritos, oportunizando a produção de uma notícia a partir de um conto. Para tanto, elaboramos um Caderno de Atividades Pedagógicas para o aluno, contendo orientações ao professor, que foi atrelado a uma Sequência Didática resultante da intersecção das sequências de Cosson (2016) e Dolz, Noverraz e Schneuwly (2004), objetivando atenuar as dificuldades encontradas na mencionada turma. O Caderno e a Sequência Didática foram concebidos com base nos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos de Bronckart (2006), com o Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo, cuja concepção de texto foi adotada e que regulou o tratamento dado aos outros estudos – como os da retextualização de Dell’Isola (2007) e Marcuschi (2010); da contextualização de Koch e Elias (2015b), Baltar (2003) e Lima (2010); das estratégias de leitura de Solé (1998) e Koch e Elias (2015a); também, as sugestões para a produção escrita de Passarelli (2012); além da correção interativa de Soares (2009) e das orientações de documentos oficiais que guiam o exercício profissional de educadores, como a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) e os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais de Língua Portuguesa (PCNLP). Os resultados mostraram que a produção de um relato é uma tarefa complexa para o estudante pouco habituado a escrever de forma objetiva e direta, e que essa prática precisa ser proporcionada com mais frequência na escola, para que a oportunidade de dominar outras linguagens seja oferecida efetivamente ao aluno. Por fim, as produções textuais dos participantes da pesquisa apresentaram diferentes níveis de adequação contextual e ao gênero, conforme os critérios adotados para avaliar os textos, a partir do que, concluímos que o ensino sistematizado da retextualização promove a escrita contextualizada. / São Cristóvão, SE

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2015-05-20T11:53:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Alberto Carmello Junior.pdf: 587038 bytes, checksum: a1ee4e890a62c55db7ce7976354b7344 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-20T11:53:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Alberto Carmello Junior.pdf: 587038 bytes, checksum: a1ee4e890a62c55db7ce7976354b7344 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-09 / The purpose of this study is to estabilish the relationship between environmental policies and the civil public action, wich is the tool to take this kind of subject to the Brazilian Judiciary System. To achieve this gol it was needed to overlook how the environment and the public policies are brought into Brazilian legal system. Also, it was studies how the Judiciary branch deals with those kind of subjects and in what ways the judicial regulation can or should rule about political decisions. Finally, some issues concerned to civil public actions were studied, such as the adequacy of representation, specific injunctions and the right to prove. The focus of the study was to reveal that the issues concerned the civil public actions should be read with the eyes of the environmental protection brought in public environemental policies. / O objetivo do presente trabalho é estabelecer a relação existente entre as políticas públicas ambientais e a ação civil pública, que é a ferramenta para que se leve este tipo de assunto para apreciação do Poder Judiciário. Para alcançar este objetivo, foi necessário verificar como a proteção ambiental e as políticas públicas se inserem no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Ainda, foi abordada a maneira pela qual o Poder Judiciário lida com tais matérias e de que maneiras o Poder Judiciário pode ou deve decidir questões de natureza política. Finalmente, alguns institutos relacionados à ação civil pública foram estudados, tais quais a representação adequada, a tutela específica e o direito à prova. O foco do trabalho foi o de revelar que os institutos da ação civil pública devem ser interpretados e aplicados sob a influência do direito à proteção ambiental consagrado nas políticas públicas.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Undario Andrade.pdf: 504544 bytes, checksum: 0364ba42ca3f8f04e8cb9f24b406ada1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-25 / The present study has as its object the study of the power of the civil court and judges to tailor the procedure provided by law to the case. If one side of the legislator 's duty to create the necessary procedures for protection of the right materials provided abstractly, it seems necessary to understand that it is also given to the magistrate, and some uniquely contoured on a theoretical level, a related power so that it can perform precisely the same activity. We believe that this possibility is due to the Brazilian legal and constitutional system, which besides allowing the general control of the constitutionality of laws, including under the rules of procedure; expressed the need to reach the constitutional dictates of a timely judicial review and above all effective, it also has to be better suited to resolve the factual issues that are brought to the Judiciary. Was this attempted rapprochement between the substantive and procedural law, through the study of differentiated guardianships, as well as the principles of instrumentality and fungibility, which moved us to try to establish criteria for this adequacy is reached by the judge in his activity, preserved since the constitutional principles and parameters. That's what we intend to identify and propose / Este trabalho tem como objeto o estudo do poder do juiz cível de adequar o procedimento previsto em lei ao caso concreto. Se de um lado o legislador tem o dever de criar os procedimentos necessários à tutela do direito material abstratamente previsto, entendemos parecer necessário que seja também conferido ao magistrado, excepcionalmente e com alguns contornos definidos no plano teórico, um poder correlato para que ele possa realizar concretamente essa mesma atividade. Entendemos que essa possibilidade é decorrência do próprio sistema jurídico-constitucional brasileiro, que além de permitir o controle difuso da constitucionalidade das leis, inclusive, sob as regras de procedimento; expressa a necessidade de que para o alcance dos ditames constitucionais de uma tutela jurisdicional tempestiva e, sobretudo efetiva, tenha também ela de ser adequada para melhor resolver as questões fáticas que são postas ao Poder Judiciário. Foi essa tentativa de reaproximação entre o direito material o processo, passando pelo estudo das tutelas diferenciadas, bem como de princípios como o da instrumentalidade e da fungibilidade, que nos moveu a tentar estabelecer critérios para que essa adequação seja alcançada pelo juiz em sua atividade, desde que preservados os princípios e parâmetros constitucionais. É o que pretendemos identificar e propor

O presente trabalho visa a analisar a preparação de alunos chineses para o exame Celpe-Bras, com o intuito de investigar se há efeito retroativo do exame nesse processo. Para tanto, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa qualitativa da qual participaram três alunas chinesas e dois professores de um curso preparatório para o Celpe-Bras, no qual elas participaram. O estudo focaliza as atividades desenvolvidas no curso e as atividades extraclasse realizadas pelas alunas para preparar-se para o exame. Os dados para a pesquisa foram gerados pela observação de oito aulas do curso preparatório e pelo acompanhamento das alunas em atividades extraclasse. Além disso, foram feitas oito entrevistas com as alunas e duas com os professores, e os textos produzidos nas aulas foram analisados em relação ao feedback dos professores e à compreensão das alunas quanto às orientação recebidas. A análise dos resultados permite afirmar que as orientações do curso preparatório são coerentes com os pressupostos teóricos que subjazem ao exame e que focalizam principalmente o critério de correção adequação contextual, que operacionaliza a noção de proficiência do exame: uso da linguagem para agir no mundo. Essa orientação contribuiu especialmente para aprimorar a compreensão oral e a organização das produções escritas das alunas. A pesquisa também sugere que a percepção das alunas sobre a maneira de aprender uma língua modificou-se durante a preparação para o exame: sua compreensão da perspectiva de proficiência como uso da linguagem e sua busca por lidar com textos autênticos também na vida cotidiana, como preparação para o exame, sugerem um efeito retroativo positivo do Celpe-Bras na trajetória de aprendizagem de língua portuguesa dessas alunas. Os resultados desta pesquisa contribuem para o debate sobre o efeito retroativo de exames de desempenho, para a elaboração de cursos preparatórios para o exame Celpe-Bras e para a organização de currículos de ensino que tenham como objetivo o uso da linguagem. / The aim of this study is to analyze the preparation of Chinese students for the Celpe-Bras proficiency exam and discuss the washback effects of the exam on this process. A qualitative research was carried out with three Chinese students and two teachers of a cram course taken by these students. The study focuses on the activities developed by the prep course and the extra class activities carried out by the students to prepare for the exam. The data include the observation of eight classes of the cram course and of the students’ extra class activities, eight interviews with the students and two with the teachers, and the texts produced by the students, which were analyzed with respect to the teachers’ feedback and to the students’ understanding of the guidance they received during the prep course. The results suggest that the guidelines of the prep course are consistent with the construct of the exam and focus mainly on the correction criterion ‘adequacy to context’, which operationalizes the underlying concept of language proficiency of the exam: the adequate use of the language to perform actions in the world. The course guidelines contributed especially to improve the students’ listening and writing skills. In addition, the students’ perceptions of their language learning process changed during the preparation for the exam: their understanding of the language proficiency concept ‘use of language’ and their search for reading and listening to authentic texts, also in their daily lives, to prepare for the exam suggest a positive washback effect of the Celpe-Bras on these students’ Portuguese learning process. The results of this research contribute to the debate on the washback effects of performance tests, to the elaboration of cram courses for the Celpe-Bras exam, and to the organization of educational curricula that aim at developing the use of language.

Les interfaces cerveau-machine (ICM) permettent de contrôler un appareil électronique grâce aux signaux cérébraux. Plusieurs méthodes de mesure de ces signaux, invasives ou non, peuvent être utilisées. L'électro-encéphalographie (EEG) est la méthode non-invasive la plus étudiée car elle propose une bonne résolution temporelle et le matériel nécessaire est bien moins volumineux que les systèmes de mesure des champs magnétiques.L'EEG a cependant une faible résolution spatiale, ce qui limite les performances des ICM utilisant cette méthode de mesure. Ce souci de résolution spatiale peut être réglé en utilisant le problème inverse de l'EEG, qui permet de passer des potentiels mesurés en surface à une distribution volumique des sources de courant dans le cerveau. Le principal verrou de cette technique est le temps nécessaire (plusieurs heures) pour calculer avec une station de travail la matrice permettant de résoudre leproblème inverse. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous avons étudié les solutions actuelles pour accélérer matériellement la conception de cette matrice. Nous avons ainsi proposé, conçu et testé une architecture électronique dédiée à ces traitements pour ICM. Les premiers résultats démontrent que notre solution permet de passer de plusieurs heures de calcul sur une station de travail à quelques minutes sur circuit reconfigurable. Cette accélération des traitements d'imagerie par EEG facilitera grandement la recherche sur l'utilisation du problème inverse et ouvrira ainsi de nouvelles perspectives pour le domaine de l'ICM. / Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are systems that use brain activity to control an external device. Various techniques can be used to collect the neural signals. The measurement can be invasive ornon-invasive. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the most studied non-invasive method. Indeed, EEG offers a fine temporal resolution and ease of use but its spatial resolution limits the performances of BCI based on EEG. The spatial resolution of EEG can be improved by solving the EEG inverse problem, which allows to determine the distribution of electrical sources in the brain from EEG. Currently, the main difficulty is the time needed(several hours) to compute the matrix which is used to solve the EEG inverse problem. This document describes the proposed solution to provide a hardware acceleration of the matrix computation. A dedicated electronic architecture has been implemented and tested. First results show that the proposed architecture divides the calculation time by a factor of 60 on a programmable circuit. This acceleration opens up new perspectives for EEG BCI.

The stochastic volatility of daily foreign exchange (FX) derivatives poses a number of risks for the international banking community. Settlement risk, liquidity risk and capital adequacy are just a few immediate concerns that arise from such volatility. This thesis examines the impact of close-out netting on minimising the stochastic volatility of inter-bank FX derivatives. The problem with close-out netting is that although it is a simple formula of taking the differences between two banks at one point in time, it is the stochastic and volatile nature of FX rates that makes measuring the full impact of netting difficult. The objective of this thesis is to establish a realistic international banking framework or modelling environment in which close-out netting can be scientifically applied and examined. Five international daily FX rates will be used as sufficient approximations for five international banks. A generalised autoregressive conditionally heteroschedastic (GARCH) modelling approach is adopted as a robust and rich FX volatility paradigm. Then through Monte Carlo simulation of the resulting fitted GARCH models, we generate the distributions -with and without close-out netting. The findings of this thesis are interesting, showing that close-out netting is far more than just a simple mathematical process. Netting surely does reduce each bank's exposure to FX volatility, however, its multivariate nature reveals some important results for banking risk research and bank analysts.

<p>Syftet är att evaluera Baselramverkets riskreglering i en konjunkturcykel med hänsyn till Östersjöregionens storbankers systemviktiga funktion.</p><p>Studien antar främst en kvantitativ ansats i de två första delarna, nyckeltalsanalysen och buffertsimuleringen men även en kvalitativ ansats antas i den tredje delen, intervjuer.<strong> </strong></p><p>Studien utgår från teorierna om Basel I och Basel II, nyckeltalsteori samt från tidigare forskning.</p><p>Resultatet i studien består av nyckeltalanalys och simulering av åtta, i Östersjöregionen verksamma, bankers nyckeltal och buffert under 21 år samt sex djupintervjuer med representanter för såväl banker som regulatorer.</p><p><strong> </strong><strong>Slutsatser</strong></p><p>Att det inte finns något samband mellan Baselregleringens kapitaltäckning och bankernas risk eller konjunktur, att riskvägningen tenderar till att vara godtycklig och har större påverkan på buffert än Baselregleringens kapitaltäckning samt att mer transparens behövs i bankerna tyder på att Baselregleringens kapitaltäckningskrav i mycket liten utsträckning visar Östersjöregionens storbankers faktiska risk.</p> / <p>The purpose is to evaluate the Basel framework risk regulation in an economic cycle, in account to the systemic function of the large banks in the Baltic Sea region.</p><p>The study mainly adopts a quantitative approach in the two first parts, the key ratio analysis and the buffer simulation. A qualitative element is also implemented in the third part, interviews.</p><p>In a theoretical perspective the study is based on the Basel I and Basel II framework, key ratio theories and previously conducted research. </p><p>The result<strong> </strong>consists of key ratios analysis and buffer simulation for eight banks in the Baltic Sea region for a period of 21 years and interviews with six representatives of banks and regulatory institutions.</p><p> <strong>Conclusion                                   </strong></p><p>The absence of correlation between the Basel regulation capital adequacy and the bank risk nor economic cycle, that risk weighting tends to be arbitrary and have greater impact on bank buffer than capital adequacy regulation has, and that more transparency is needed in banking; suggests that the Basel capital adequacy to a small extent reflect actual risk.</p>

<p>This dissertation has three goals : to establish an inventory of translation strategies applicable to the translation of metaphor, to investigate how the application of these strategies affects the balance in metaphorical quality between source text and target text, and, finally, to determine whether this balance is a useful indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole, towards either <i>adequacy</i> or <i>acceptability</i>.</p><p>To carry out this research the author has established a corpus comprising 250 metaphors from the novel <i>La goutte d’or</i> by Michel Tournier and its Swedish translation, <i>Gulddroppen</i> by C.G. Bjurström. Based on the criteria <i>thematical and contextual connection</i> 158 metaphors from this corpus have been selected for analysis.The strategy used in the translation of each metaphor has been established. The degree of balance in metaphorical quality between the two texts has then been determined and its significance as an indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole has been discussed.</p><p>The underlying theory and methodology of the study are those of Gideon Toury as outlined in his book <i>Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond</i>. The study is thus essentially descriptive in nature.</p><p>The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part gives a survey of well known research within the fields of metaphor theory and translation theory. Various theories concerning the requested equality between a text and its translation are presented, as well as inventories of translation strategies established by a number of researchers. The second part contains the analysis of the selected metaphors and establishes a set of strategies for this purpose.</p>

This dissertation has three goals : to establish an inventory of translation strategies applicable to the translation of metaphor, to investigate how the application of these strategies affects the balance in metaphorical quality between source text and target text, and, finally, to determine whether this balance is a useful indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole, towards either adequacy or acceptability. To carry out this research the author has established a corpus comprising 250 metaphors from the novel La goutte d’or by Michel Tournier and its Swedish translation, Gulddroppen by C.G. Bjurström. Based on the criteria thematical and contextual connection 158 metaphors from this corpus have been selected for analysis.The strategy used in the translation of each metaphor has been established. The degree of balance in metaphorical quality between the two texts has then been determined and its significance as an indicator of the direction of the translation as a whole has been discussed. The underlying theory and methodology of the study are those of Gideon Toury as outlined in his book Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond. The study is thus essentially descriptive in nature. The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part gives a survey of well known research within the fields of metaphor theory and translation theory. Various theories concerning the requested equality between a text and its translation are presented, as well as inventories of translation strategies established by a number of researchers. The second part contains the analysis of the selected metaphors and establishes a set of strategies for this purpose.