A construção da personagem Aslan e suas relações com o universo cristão em língua inglesa e em língua portuguesa: um estudo baseado no corpus da obra de C.S.Lewis

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the construction of the character Aslan, in the chronicle The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1949), written by C. S. Lewis, and in the respective translation, made by Mendes Campos (2002). For this, we consider the intertextuality between this story and the narrative of the Holy Bible, focusing mainly on the lexicon-contextual constructions that touch the object-character of our study. For this, we are guided by assumptions of the studies of the field of Lexicology (BARBOSA, 1990, 1998; DUBOUIS, 1973), Corpus Linguistics (BERBER SARDINHA, 2000, 2002, 2004) and Corpus Based Translation Studies (WordList and Concord), in order to verify the translation behavior adopted by a work that is rich in meanings and relevant within the world literary panorama. We note, based on our survey of the most frequent words in context, that the source and meta texts present approximations regarding the lexical choices for biblical intertextual composition, creating associative images between Aslan and Christ.