Milton M. Azevedo

A contrastive phonology of Portuguese and English

This title compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese.

Shadows of a Literary Dialect: For Whom the Bell Tolls in Five Romance Languages

Sixty years after publication, For Whom the Bell Tolls remains an admirable stylistic experiment in which Hemingway manipulates Spanish and English syntax and vocabulary to convey the impression that the characters are speaking Spanish. The result is a literary dialect, a fictional device to evoke rather than replicate distinctive features of Spanish speech. Opinions vary about whether a literary dialect can be successfully translated into a dialect of the target language. This article examines some select translation strategies in Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish versions of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and concludes that in most of these translations of Hemingways work, something vital is missing.

Considerations on literary dialect in Spanish and Portuguese

For centuries authors have sought to evoke orality through a variety of techniques, generically known as literary dialect, aiming at capturing salient features of speech. This article analyzes some of those techniques and their implications in the representation of regional dialects, foreigner talk, and hybrid languages in works written in Spanish and Portuguese.

Implicaciones pedagógicas de la representación literaria de la variación lingüística en español

Los rasgos regionales y sociales del espanol constituyen parle integra del idioma, y el analisis lingtistico de su representacion literaria pone al alcance de los estudiantes recursos fnrmales para apreciarla diversidad del lenguaje. Pur lo lanin, los profesores de literatura necesitun echar mano de ancinnes de lingnistica descriptiva, dialectologia, sncinlinguistica, y lingnistica literaria, a fin de ayudar a sus alumnos a comprender las conantacinnes culturales del lenguaje no normativo.

Foreigner Talk as a Stylistic Device in Érico Veríssimo's Fiction

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