When these are systematically reproduced in the original writings of Portuguese historians, the result may be a wholesale shift in the norms governing the discourse, with epistemological, as well as stylistic, repercussions. Instead, the textual organisation, sentence structure and even vocabulary are often calqued from the original, leaving “footprints” in the Portuguese text. That is to say, in the present context of globalization, translators working from English into Portuguese are unlikely to feel the need to extensively domesticate the text as do their counterparts operating in the opposite direction. As academic writing tends not to be formally taught in Portugal, this shift may be due in part to the pressure exerted by translated texts upon historiographic discourse in Portugal. However, there are now signs that it is changing, with younger scholars producing a prose that is clearer, simpler and more concise – in short, more like the hegemonic discourse familiar to English historians. ![]() ![]() "With its penchant for complex syntax, poetic effusion and high-flown diction, Portuguese historiographic discourse has always been notoriously difficult to translate into English, often requiring extensive reformulation to make it acceptable (or even intelligible) to an Anglophone readership.
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