Actitudes lingüísticas en traducciones al español y al portugués de Pygmalion

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Published: Jun 2, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2025.17.06
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Drama, Linguistic attitudes, Pygmalion, Shaw, Translation

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José María Santos Rovira
Universidad de Lisboa
Magdalena Coll
Universidad de la República

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The play Pygmalion, by the Irish author George Bernard Shaw, is a masterpiece of modern drama that has been adapted into several theatrical productions, in which themes related to class, social mobility and identity are explored. In this study, we will analyse the linguistic attitudes behind the selection of a prestigious variety and the choice of a substandard variety in the translations of this play into Spanish and Portuguese, as well as the challenges faced by the translator in reflecting in the target language the social differences established through the use of two diastratic varieties of the source language.

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Santos Rovira, J. M., & Coll, M. (2025). Actitudes lingüísticas en traducciones al español y al portugués de Pygmalion. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (17). https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2025.17.06
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José María Santos Rovira, Universidad de Lisboa

José María Santos Rovira is Professor at Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). He completed a B.A. in Spanish Studies at Universidad de Granada and a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Universidad de Alicante. He has developed his professional career in several countries: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China), University of Macau (China), International University of Jakarta (Indonesia) and the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). He is a corresponding member of the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua and of the Academia de Ciencias de la República Dominicana. He has published several books, including: Demolingüística del español en Portugal (2022) and La enseñanza del español en China: historia, desarrollo y situación actual (2011). He has also published a large number of articles in prestigious international academic journals from Chile, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, etc. His research interests cover several fields, from applied linguistics to dialectology and sociolinguistics.

Magdalena Coll, Universidad de la República

Magdalena Coll is Professor at the Institute of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences at Universidad de la República in Uruguay. She is a Level II Researcher of the National System of Researchers and member of the Academia Nacional de Letras del Uruguay. She has a B.A. in Linguistics from Universidad de la República and completed her Ph.D. at the University of California (Berkeley). She has published books and articles in her areas of expertise: historical linguistics, lexicography and languages in contact. She coordinates and directs national and international research projects. She was director of the Department of Psycho- and Sociolinguistics and coordinator of the Institute of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences.

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