Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate the realisation of Finite ‘shall’ in the short story ‘The yellow wallpaper’ and its counterparts in two of its translations into Portuguese. There was the identification of the occurrences of Finite ‘shall’ in the source text; after that, there was the alignment of these occurrences with its counterparts in the target texts; and, then, there was a comparison between the occurrences in the corpus with a view to semantic and structural considerations. Results show that the occurrences are quite similar with regard to the semantic aspects and relatively distinct concerning the structural ones.
Highlights
The verbal art found in many texts, as much literary as nonliterary ones, has been of great interest to scholars concerned with the investigation of the creative use of language
As for the theoretical review, this paper explores concepts of Stylistics, Translational Stylistics, and Systemic Functional Linguistics
This paper focuses on one specific trait of modality: the Finite ‘shall’ as a probable stylistic linguistic device
Summary
The verbal art found in many texts, as much literary as nonliterary ones, has been of great interest to scholars concerned with the investigation of the creative use of language. Systemic Functional Linguistics is a useful theory of language for investigating texts of literature and/or literary texts in translation, because it offers linguistic categories (e.g., Theme and Rheme; Modal adjunct; Participant, Process and Circumstance) that are relevant for the analysis of verbal art (Halliday 1994:xxix). Such linguistic categories are versatile because they do help the linguist unveil the meanings of texts, and because they range from lower to higher strata.
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