The lexicon in intralinguistic and interlinguistic translation work

Abstract

This paper aims to present some research questions about the translation process in the teaching and learning of Portuguese as a native and foreign language. The motivation for its development was the identification of linguistic occurrences present in students' textual productions whose characteristics were lexical inaccuracies. Such occurrences led us to raise our research hypothesis, namely, that lexical inaccuracies would be linguistic uses resulting from the exercise of language-to-language translation, a predominant method in the school tradition. These questions pointed out and observed under the light of the Theory of Enunciative Operations, a framework authored by Antoine Culioli, allowed us to argue that the concept of translation in the context of language teaching and learning should be approached in the articulation between language and natural languages, a process in which epilinguistic, linguistic and metalinguistic activities are related.