"Translating "Under the Sign of Invention
Gilberto Gil's Song Lyric Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4344487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heloísa Pezza Cintrão (0000-0001-9271-5772, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 813-832 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/038905ar |
| OpenAlex | W2149938291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The translation of song lyrics shares in the difficulties of constrained translation, as well as in the impossibilities of poetic translation. In Gilberto Gil's adaptation of the song "I just called to say I love you" by Stevie Wonder, two translation procedures stand out: (1) to take broad semantic fields as translation units, and (2) to opt for cultural adaptation in terms of the translation's poles of domesticating/foreignizing. The way Gil faces up to the challenges of the translation of the song is consistent with Haroldo de Campos ideas on transcreation
Adaptation (eye) · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Poetry · Sign (mathematics) · Translation (biology) · Wonder · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Mathematics · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |