Portuguese Translation Research Articles

Quem é Shar em Nw e suas traduções para o português? Um estudo da representação da personagem baseado em valores atitudinais

This paper draws on the Martinian interpretation of Systemic Functional Grammar (MARTIN 1992, MARTIN; ROSE 2007) to approach translation as interlingual reinstantiation (SOUZA, 2010), from an interpersonal stance. The goal of this investigation is to examine the representation of a character of the novel in the original text and its translations to cast light on the implications of semantic variation for reader positioning. The analysis is based on the Appraisal system (MARTIN; WHITE 2005) and the text chosen for this investigation is an excerpt of a chapter of British contemporary novel NW by Zadie Smith (2012), along with its Brazilian and Portuguese translations. The analysis shows greater and lesser variations, most of loading or polarity, in attitudes associated with the character.

Houaiss... Pinheiro. Galindo: and what the future holds for Ulysses translations in Brazil

This paper aims to analyze the history behind the three Brazilian translations of James Joyce’s Ulysses, trying to consider how each translation helped to set up the conditions for the production of another, and may even define the need for this future retranslation, which by its turn will react to that first work, filling a cultural blank space previously created only by the existence and the specific characteristics of the work that came before. In this way, we attempt to provide some clarification for the apparent abundance of Portuguese language translations of Joyce’s seminal novel.

Tradução do Hibridismo: Análise da Versão Portuguesa de “The Joy Luck Club” de Amy Tan

As a writer of American literature, while being of Chinese extraction, Amy Tan was born and raised in the United States. In her works, we sometimes notice the appearance of marks of the Chinese language, which is sometimes evident in the discourse of a bilingual person. In addition, her works are also full of cultural words strongly linked to traditional Chinese culture that, when translated, find lexical gaps in the target language, producing divergence and loss of meaning. Through the analysis of linguistic and cultural hybridity in the Portuguese translation of The Joy Luck Clubby her, we intend to highlight how these hybrid phenomena are transposed from the source text to the target text, to help readers better understand the functions and translational results of these hybrid phenomena.

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the underactive bladder questionnaire to portuguese.

The aim of the current study was to perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Underactive Bladder Questionnaire (UAB-q). The study design included the Portuguese translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the UAB-q in 90 patients from a urology outpatient clinic following international methodology. The psychometric properties tested were the validity, reliability, internal consistency and stability of the instrument. The content validity index at the item (I-CVI) and scale level (S-CVI) were above 0.80 and did not require changes. Regarding the reliability analysis, Cronbach's alpha was 0.79. The internal consistency and the base time stability (test-retest) had excellent indexes; all were above 0.90. These results indicate that the UAB-q is a valid, reproducible and reliable instrument for screening underactive bladders and is a potentially useful tool to guide health actions and improve the care of underactive patients.

Self-evaluation of communication experiences after laryngectomy (SECEL): translation and psychometric properties in European Portuguese

Introduction: The patients’ perception of how communication dysfunction may cause a disadvantage is important information for the clinical decision-making process.Objectives: This study aimed to translate the self-evaluation of communication experiences after laryngectomy (SECEL) to the European Portuguese (EP) and to assess its feasibility, acceptability, reliability, and validity.Material and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out, and a cluster sample of seven ENT outpatient clinics was drawn. The EP-SECEL was filled in by 129 people with laryngectomy, aged 29–81 years and 25 of those completed it in the second time. Patients have also filled in the European Organization for Research Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORCT), the core quality of life questionnaire (QLQ-C30) and the 35-item Head and Neck module (H&N35).Results: The EP-SECEL has the same conceptual meaning, semantics, idiomatic, format and score equivalence as the original one. Psychometric analyses revealed that it is feasible (missing <1%, to fill out took about 15 minutes for most patients), acceptable (floor and ceiling effects inferior to 15%), reliable (excellent internal consistency, Cronbach’s alpha = 0.90, and moderate test-retest, Spearman’s rhô = 0.64), well-constructed (66% of the total variance is explained by exploratory factor analysis), significantly convergent (correlates with the EORTC QLQ-C30 and H&N35) and validly discriminates people with total and partial laryngectomy as well as people with different primary means-of-communication.Conclusions: This study supports that the EP-SECEL has sufficient psychometric qualities to be considered an adequate tool to be recommended for assessing health-related quality of life among laryngectomy patients.

Brazilian Portuguese translation, cross‐cultural adaptation and reproducibility assessment of the modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children

ObjectiveTo translate and culturally adapt the modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children into Brazilian Portuguese, and to evaluate the reproducibility of the translated version. MethodsThe stage of translation and cross‐cultural adaptation was performed according to an internationally accepted methodology, including the translation, back‐translation, and pretest application of the translated version to a sample of 74 children to evaluate the degree of understanding. The reproducibility of the translated scale was assessed by applying the final version of Brazilian Portuguese modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children to a sample of 64 children and 25 healthcare professionals, who were asked to correlate a randomly selected description from the translated scale with the corresponding representative illustration of the stool type. ResultsThe final version of Brazilian Portuguese modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children were evidently reproducible, since almost complete agreement (k>0,8) was obtained among the translated descriptions and illustrations of the stool types, both among the children and the group of specialists. The Brazilian Portuguese modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children was shown to be reliable in providing very similar results for the same respondents at different times and for different examiners. ConclusionThe Brazilian Portuguese modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children is reproducible; it can be applied in clinical practice and in scientific research in Brazil.

O papel da fonologia do português brasileiro na tradução de textos musicais

Este estudo investiga o processo tradutológico de músicas para o canto, verificando quais estratégias o versionista lança mão para que a tradução seja tanto logocêntrica como melocêntrica quando comparada à canção original. Para esse fim, fizemos uma comparação entre a notação musical da versão original da música Seasons of Love, composta por Jonathan Larson para o teatro musical Rent em 1994, e sua versão para o português brasileiro, realizada pela versionista Mariana Elisabetsky em 2016. Com base nos aspectos da fonologia do português brasileiro, em especial ritmo, acento e os processos de juntura segmental (COLLISCHONN, 2001), nos conceitos de acento métrico e ritmo sob a perspectiva da música (BENNETT, 1987; LACERDA, 1967), e nos processos tradutológicos de músicas para o canto (FRAZON, 2008), nossa análise mostra que não é possível a realização de uma tradução literal de músicas para o canto, o que leva o versionista a criar uma adaptação para que a letra traduzida possa ser acompanhada junto à notação musical de sua letra original e, ao mesmo tempo, não cause estranhamento ao ouvinte.

The Portuguese version of Rhinitis and Asthma Patient's Perspective (RAPP): Validation and assessment

BackgroundAllergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma are two common chronic diseases that often coexist. There is a need for a validated tool to evaluate HRQoL of Portuguese speakers with asthma and/or rhinitis patients in clinical practice. ObjectivesTo adapt and validate RhinAsthma Patient Perspective (RAPP) in Portuguese. MethodsThe RAPP questionnaire was translated into Portuguese. Asthmatics with comorbidities and rhinitis attending the allergy department of Coimbra University Hospital were asked to complete the Portuguese translation of RAPP, in addition to the SF-12, ACT, and a Symptomatologic VAS twice, with a 4-week interval between visits. During Visit 2, a Global Rating Scale (GRS) was completed to assess any change in health status. Scale dimensions, internal consistency and convergent validity, reliability, discriminant ability and responsiveness to change, as well as Minimal Clinical Difference were assessed. ResultsFactor and confirmatory analysis confirm the unidimensional structure of the questionnaire. Internal consistency has been shown to be satisfactory (0.82 visit 1 and 0.86 at visit 2). The tool is able to discriminate between patients on the basis of asthma severity, asthma control level, and rhinitis severity; convergent validity showed a significant correlation with SF-2 Physical component (r=−0.46 and 0.42, p at Visits 1 and 2). An ICC of 0.97 and a CCC=0.94 indicate that the tool is highly reliable. Responsiveness was shown in detecting a significant association with GRS changes (r=0.41, p<0.01) and ACT (r=−0.47, p<0.01) but not with VAS. (r=.14, n.s.). MID value was 2 points. ConclusionsThe Portuguese version of RAPP has been demonstrated to have good measurement properties and sensitivity to health changes, which will provide a valid, reliable and standardized HRQoL measurement in patients with asthma and comorbid allergic rhinitis in clinical practice.

O Expositor da Cultura Jurídica e da História do Direito: Pioneirismo e Impacto de Lawrence Friedman

The following article provides a panorama of the work of Professor Lawrence Friedman, a renowned scholar of the history of American law and exponent of the Law and Society Association, discussing his role as a pioneer and impact as an author on the shaping and expansion of various fields of knowledge. From his pioneering studies on legal culture, the legal system, and law and development, his seminal texts on the history of law, the penal system, and law and pop culture, to his original theses on total justice, the republic of choice, the horizontal society, and the impact of law, the article summarizes six decades of Friedman’s academic output, including his 50 years spent as Professor at Stanford University Law School. Apart from the selected literature, the essay provides a short biographical note on Friedman, also touching on his role as leader of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee of Sociology of Law, as well as in the development of Stanford’s Juridical Sciences Master (J.S.M.) and International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF). The article has been written in tandem with the newly-published Portuguese translation of Friedman’s “Is There a Modern Legal Culture?” essay, serving as an invitation to Brazilian academia to explore, translate, discuss, and learn more about Friedman’s work.

Perceived Environmental Supportiveness Scale: Portuguese Translation, Validation and Adaptation to the Physical Education Domain

Abstract Aim: Grounded on Self-Determination Theory, this study aimed to translate, adapt and validate the Perceived Environmental Supportiveness Scale (PESS) in a sample of Portuguese physical education students. Methods: The global sample was comprised of 964 students (518 females), divided in two groups: the calibration (n = 469) and the validation one (n = 483), all of them enrolled in two Physical Education (PE) classes/week. Results: The analysis provided support for a one factor and 12 items model, which are in line with the values adopted in the methodology (χ² = 196.123, df = 54, p = <.001, SRMR = .035, NNFI = .943, CFI = .954, RMSEA = .074, 90% CI .063-.085). Results express that the models are invariant in all analysis (i.e., calibration vs. validation, male vs. female, and 3rd vs. secondary cycle; three and single factor models). Conclusion: The present study suggests that the PESS with one factor and 12 items has good psychometric properties and can be used to assess perceived need supportive motivational environments provided by PE teachers. Additionally, invariance analysis showed support for the use of the scale in both genders and in the 3rd and secondary cycles.

"Ulysses in the South": II (Molly) Bloomsday Celebration in Niterói, Brazil, 12 June 2019

"Ulysses in the South":II (Molly) Bloomsday Celebration in Niterói, Brazil, 12 June 2019 Vitor Alevato do Amaral Bloomsday celebrations in Brazil are too many to count. They have kept fans of James Joyce together in several cities for over three decades now. In 1988, Haroldo de Campos and Munira Mutran organized what was a Bloomsday to remember. That night, friends in Joyce convened at Finnegan's Pub, in the city of São Paulo, to create the Society of the Friends of James Joyce in Brazil. The following year, the Society became the current Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI in Portuguese). As a carioca, I was curious about the first Bloomsday in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to Peter O'Neill, an Irish friend who lives in Brazil, I was able to learn that it took place in 1998 as an initiative of José Rache de Almeida, the former Ambassador to Brazil in Ireland. Peter O'Neill was so thoughtful that he even preserved a copy of the program, in which we see the names of Antônio Houaiss and Bernardina Pinheiro, two translators of Ulysses into Brazilian Portuguese who had not met before and would not meet again—Houaiss died the following March.1 From Rio de Janeiro, we crossed the Guanabara Bay and soon arrived in the city of Niterói. There, on the afternoon of 12 June 2019, the research group Joyce Studies in Brazil, with the support of the Irish Consulate, and Education in Ireland, held the II Bloomsday in Niterói at Fluminense Federal University—UFF. Molly, instead of Leopold, was the protagonist in this edition. The event had four parts: lecture, reading, music, and food and drink. The Consul General Barry Tumelty's opening words were followed by Joyce scholar Patrick O'Neill's paper. Since the protagonist of this (Molly-related) Bloomsday was, of course, Molly, our guest speaker delivered the very lively "Weaving a Textual Web: Molly Calypso Penelope Bloom." After asserting that in Ulysses Joyce "weaves a textual web of echoes and resonances of Homer's Odyssey," he demonstrated how Joyce created "onomastic linkages" between characters in the novel and characters in the Odyssey whose names serve to identify the eighteen episodes of Ulysses. Then, with a touch of humor, O'Neill portrayed Molly as a character who mirrors "all of the several female figures identified by the chapter names 'Calypso,' 'Scylla and Charybdis,' 'Sirens,' 'Nausicaa,' 'Circe,' and 'Penelope.'" Any attempt to summarize the talk cannot but fail to do justice to its acuity. We proceeded to the reading session. This year, the passage selected was taken from Molly Bloom's monologue.2 Fifteen people—among [End Page 229] them, Andrea Lombardi and Susana Kampff Lages, the co-organizers of the Bloomsday with me—read the 163-word excerpt in English and different translations in French, German, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Russian. The Latin translation was especially made for the occasion by Beethoven Alvarez, who teaches Latin language and literature at Fluminense Federal University. I thank him for allowing me to share his translation with you: O etiam mare et puniceum mare uelut igneum interdum et gloriosus solis occasus et fici in Alamedae hortis ita vero et omnes angiporti peculiares et roseae et caeruleae et croceae aedes et rosaria et hyacinthus et gerania et cacti et Mons Calpe uelut puella ubi fio montis flos ita uero quando florem posuit in coma sicut Andalucianae puellae solentes uel an rubram ornanda sim et quomodo ille dedit mihi milia basia sub Morisca moenia et rata sum tantum alterum quantum alterum et tunc eum quaero oculis meis ut etiam quaerat ita uero et tunc is me quaesiui me uero quaerere ita uero montis flos meus et primo bracchia mea posuit circum eum uero et eum detraxi apud me ut is sentisset meum pectus omnis fragrantia ita uero et eius cor factu'st delirans et ita uero dixi ita uellem ita uero. Then, we went from literature to music. Alex Navar played several tunes in his new uilleann pipes, among them "An Londubh" ("The Blackbird"), "An Fáinne Óir" ("Gold Ring"), "An Chúilfhionn" ("The Coolin"), "An Phis Fhliuch...

From Idylle to idílio: Mário de Andrade's Parody of Hermann und Dorothea

From Idylle to idílio:Mário de Andrade's Parody of Hermann und Dorothea Thomas O. Beebee Mehr wohl angestattet möch ich im Hause die Braut sehn; Denn die Arme wird doch nur zulezt vom Manne verachtet, Und er hält sie als Magd, die als Magd mit dem Bündel hereinkam. O verso seguinte veio, sem ela querer: Ungerecht bleiben die Männer . . . repeliu-o. [I would like to see the bride of the house more richly adurned; Because the poor woman will only be scorned by her husband, And he will treat whoever arrives as a maid with her bundle as a maid. The next verse came to her against her will: Men are always unjust . . . She rejected it.] —Mário de Andrade, 1927 Goethe specialists will recognize the hexametric prosody of the German lines in the epigraph as belonging to Hermann und Dorothea, even if they perhaps do not quite recall their exact place in the idyll, or the character who speaks them. (It is Hermann's father in the second canto, "Aussicht," 2.183–85)1 They will certainly notice the several errors in transcription: "angestattet" instead of "ausgestattet" ("angestattet" not being a word in German, I have translated it with the English neologism "adurned"); "möch"; and "zulezt." And anyone can see that this resulting text is bilingual. The final line in Portuguese says that the next verse came to "her"—the novel's protagonist—unwittingly, and that she rejected it. The number refers the reader to a footnote that provides a somewhat free translation of Goethe's lines into Portuguese, which are almost the last lines in Mário de Andrade's 1927 novel, Amar, verbo intransitive. Idílio (To love, intransitive verb, idyll; hereafter Amar).2 The "she" is a German woman named Elza living in Brazil, who is usually referred to as "Fräulein"; various sentences in German, or sentences sprinkled with German words, as well as an entire poem by Heinrich Heine declaimed by Elza's pupil, appear in the middle of the Portuguese. In the erlebte Rede (i.e., free indirect discourse) narrative modality of much of the novel, German authors and poems are cited repeatedly. The citations are sometimes translated, or more frequently mistranslated. For example, the aphorism of act 3, scene 1 of Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell—"wer gar zuviel bedenkt wird [End Page 267] wenig leisten" (whoever thinks too much achieves little) loses its "gar" and is rendered into Portuguese with the meaning "those who think too much, do not marry" (Amar 168). The last words of the text are three Portuguese translations of the Heinrich Heine poem, "Das Fischermädchen." However, in the culmination of the novel's plot, "Fräulein" recalls Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea and quotes from it, as we have seen above. Her reasons for doing so, as well as the overall relationship between the plot and purpose of Amar and Goethe's epic idyll, will be revealed in what follows. How and for what reasons did a text of the German national literary canon find its way into a narrative by the single most disruptive author in the history of Brazilian literature? The answers to this question are of interest to Brazilianists inasmuch as they provide a new interpretive framework for understanding the novel. Andrade's appropriation of Goethe is, moreover, another example illustrating one of the most prominent theories of Brazilian literature and culture; namely Roberto Schwarz's notion of "idéias fora do lugar" (ideas out of place), which refers to the contradictions that arise when European concepts and ideas are applied to Brazilian contexts, provoking original narrative and generic coping strategies.3 Goethe specialists, on the other hand, are aware that Hermann und Dorothea, along with Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), was Goethe's most popular work throughout the nineteenth century, with its influence waning as the twentieth century progressed and its message to the European middle classes grew increasingly out of date. Andrade's repurposing of Goethe's plot, albeit under the aegis of modernism, demonstrates the continuing relevance of a text that might otherwise be considered of...

La censura inquisitorial en las Centurias de Amatus Lusitanus

En este artículo analizamos la censura inquisitorial expresada en expurgaciones de algunos extractos de Centurias de Curas Medicinales, escrito por el médico portugués João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco (1511-1568), más conocido como Amatus Lusitanus. Nuestras fuentes han sido las Centurias II, III y IV (atadas juntas, Florencia, 1551) y Centuria VII (Venecia, 1566), ambas conservadas en la Biblioteca General de la Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal. Para la reconstitución de los textos recurrimos a otras ediciones disponibles online y a la nueva traducción portuguesa, preparada a partir de la edición de Burdeos de 1620. Concluimos que la mayoría de los extractos censurados se refieren a afecciones de sexualidad, ginecología y obstetricia, el resto se relacionan con asuntos de naturaleza estrictamente religiosa.

Imagens de um certo Brasil e redes de significância na tradução para o português de Là où les tigres sont chez eux, de Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès: emergência do exótico?

Neste artigo nos ateremos a imagens do Brasil e a redes de significância (Berman 1995) que aparecem no romance Là où les tigres sont chez eux, de Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, e observaremos suas refrações na tradução para o português, Lá onde os tigres se sentem em casa, de Mauro Pinheiro e Maria de Fátima do Coutto. É nosso objetivo perceber como se dá a criação de um Brasil exótico no romance e como esse exótico emerge e se reconfigura na tradução. Inicialmente, observaremos o processo criativo do autor que, mediante um movimento de reversão de expectativas, engendra a construção de redes de significância e de imagens do Brasil. Voltaremos, em seguida, o olhar para o texto traduzido, no intuito de perceber diferenças que reiterem ou enfraqueçam as redes de significância do original. Apontaremos, por fim, algumas consequências advindas das diferenças encontradas.

Retraduções de As flores do mal uma viagem entre Brasil e Portugal

Apesar de ser um livro de grande importância para a poesia brasileira e portuguesa desde o século XIX, Les fleurs du mal só recebem sua primeira tradução (praticamente) integral em língua portuguesa em 1958, no Brasil, por Jamil Almansour Haddad, à qual se seguem as traduções de Ignacio de Souza Moitta (1971) e de Ivan Junqueira (1985). A primeira edição integral portuguesa é de 1992, feita por Fernando Pinto do Amaral, à qual se segue a tradução de Maria Gabriela Llansol (2003). O Brasil, no século XXI, acolhe novamente Les fleurs du mal com o lançamento, em 2011, de mais duas traduções integrais, por Mário Laranjeira (2011) e Helena Amaral (2011, 2013). Apesar de já terem sido estudas no Brasil e em Portugal, são poucas as reflexões que comparam essas traduções brasileiras com as portuguesas; comparação que nos permite interessantes indagações sobre as práticas tradutórias dos dois lados do continente.

Soudobá recepce díla Jiřího Levého ve Španělsku a Iberoamerice

The article aims to present the contemporary reception of the ideas of the Czech translation scholar Jiři Levy in Spain and Latin America. His ideas, formulated in the 1950s, remain perfectly valid till the present day; nevertheless, the fact that Levy wrote in a minor language meant that the international academic community had limited access to his innovative thinking on translation as a decision process, translation as a communication process and the historical perspective of translation. The Czech scholar’s concepts did not receive international recognition until 2011 when his principal work, The Art of Translation (1963), was translated into English. Even before, however, the translation studies community in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries did read about Levy’s thinking, using the German translation (1969). Surprisingly, the reception of his works in that part of the world has not been as limited as one would think and Levy has his admirers who have been disseminating his ideas in their respective areas (Vega in Spanish and Neckel in Portuguese). Besides, translation studies journals in Latin America have published monothematic issues appreciating the works of the Czech translation scholar (Brazil, Scientia Traductionis, 2012; Colombia, Mutatis Mutandis, 2016). Of equal importance are the Spanish anthology Jiři Levy: una concepcion (re)descubierta (2013), comprising his most representative texts collected and translated by Jana Kralova and Miguel Cuenca, as well as a commented Portuguese translation of the first part of his principal work done by Filipe Neckel which forms part of his doctoral thesis (2011). To sum up, the recent (re) discovery of Levy’s thinking on translation has contributed to the methodological innovation of translation research.

Psychometric properties of the Breast Size Rating Scale (BSRS) in Brazilian university women

The present study examined the psychometric properties of a Brazilian Portuguese translation of the Breast Size Rating Scale (BSRS). A total of 194 Brazilian university women completed the BSRS along with measures of body satisfaction, body appreciation, weight discrepancy, and attitudes toward societal appearance ideals. They also had their actual bra size and body mass indices (BMIs) objectively measured. Results indicated evidence of adequate convergent validity insofar as greater breast size dissatisfaction was significantly associated with greater weight discrepancy, higher BMI, lower body appreciation, lower body satisfaction, greater use of information from society about appearance ideals, greater perceived pressure from society about appearance ideals, and greater internalisation of general and athletic appearance ideals, respectively. In our sample, 20.6% of women reported no breast size dissatisfaction, 65.5% desired a larger breast size, and 13.9% desired a smaller breast size. Findings demonstrate that BSRS scores are psychometrically sound and that breast size dissatisfaction is common among Brazilian women.

What Were You Thinking? Brain Development in Young Adults

During the transitions to adulthood, young adults with mental health conditions struggle more than their typically-developing counterparts. Studies have shown that adolescents and young adults with mental health conditions are delayed in all areas of psychosocial development except sexuality. This tip sheet offers ways to work with young adults with mental health conditions and make this transition process easier. A Portuguese translation of this publication is available for download.

Supporting Employment for Young Adults Living with Mental Health Conditions

Having a job as a youth or young adult is a predictor of long-term work success. Having a job has also been related to improved self-esteem, self-efficacy, and life satisfaction. However, there is a significant gap in work experience for many young adults living with mental health conditions. This tip sheet has information on 1) why work is especially important for young adults; 2) the impact of receiving disability benefits rather than employment early in life; 3) how to cultivate motivation toward employment goals; 4) ways to promote work experiences; 5) tips on helping young adults with mental health conditions get a job; 6) and resources to learn more. A Portuguese translation of this publication is available for download.

Preface to the EAWE Portuguese version: A case for a new era of phenomenological psychopathology in psychiatry and clinical psychology

This special issue presents a Portuguese translation of the EAWE: Examination of Anomalous World Experience (Sass et al., this issue; original publication Sass et al., 2017). The EAWE is a semi-structured, phenomenologically-oriented interview designed to elicit descriptions of changes in the lived world, particularly those that may be more commonly found in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (though it may also be used to study disorders outside the schizophrenia spectrum). The EAWE represents an important trend in psychiatric research and practice: a growing appreciation for the role of subjectivity in understanding, explaining (Sass, 2010), classifying and treating psychiatric disorders, especially complex and heterogeneous disorders such as schizophrenia. The EAWE’s translation into Portuguese reflects several equally important developments. The ability to collect detailed information about the experience of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions among Portuguese-speaking participants will make it possible to study the phenomenological characteristics of schizophrenia outside of Anglophone cultures, providing important data about the intersections of individual, interpersonal, and cultural experiences in the development of the disorder. In addition, it occurs at a time of renewed energy and collaboration in phenomenological psychopathology, particularly in Brazil.