Maria Helena Marques Antunes

• Doctor of Education
• Lecturer at University of Lisbon

This book analyses critical aspects of the complex and intricate process of transposing irony and humour from the cultural context of the source language into that of the target language. In other words, it goes beyond the scope of linguistic translation, and it may instead be qualified as an instance of cultural translation that attempts to identi...

A aquisição de conteúdos gramaticais em língua estrangeira sempre se revelou uma tarefa penosa, promovendo-se, por vezes, a competência comunicativa em detrimento do uso correto da língua. A questão do conjuntivo é representativa da problemática referida, na medida em que a assimilação e a utilização deste modo é sempre um processo moroso e árduo....

The poems discussed in this study form two poetic cycles devoted to moral edification. The first set, a ballade by Eustache Deschamps and an anonymous rondeau, brings together two poetic forms with different aesthetic assumptions. The second is a series of six ballads situated at the end of the long lyrical suite of Jardin de plaisance et fleur de...

Like his contemporaries, Rui Muñoz (whose poetic activity dates from the 1460s or 1470s) indulged in the practice of borrowing texts. This article will take two directions: the first concerns the practice of quotation, which reveals the poet’s creativity as well as his attempts to renovate the dialogical genres, bilingualism, and intertextuality; t...

En la poesía cancioneril cuatrocentista el amor es tema privilegiado y el género pregunta/respuesta se muestra particularmente adecuado para discutir cuestiones de naturaleza amatoria. Sin embargo, la lectura de las colecciones poéticas castellanas permite reconocer la existencia, en número inferior, de preguntas/respuestas que versan sobre temátic...