OS EFEITOS DE SENTIDO NA TRADUÇÃO DO DISCURSO DE POSSE DO PRESIDENTE NORTE AMERICANO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

This piece of research provides a study of the discourse of President John Fitzgerald Kenney focusing on his Inaugural Address delivered on January 20th, 1961, Washington, D.C. United States of America. The reading we did is under Analysis of Discourse optic, which constitutes the discourse from its social and historical context, specifically the part that deals with Discursive Formation. The theories that work as preamble in this study are: the Hermeneutic, art of understanding, interpreting, and translating in a clear way the signs first unclear, it treats the language and its signs as creative energy — translation not only as text production, but also as language interpretation and contemplation. Contrastive Analysis shows us the resemblances and the differences among two or more languages. Our aim, in this study, it to analysis the sense effects produced in the translation for Portuguese of JFK’s Inaugural Address, to understand the Brazilian people constitutes themselves differently from the American people does. The results of the analysis let us conclude the sense effects are noticed by means of the comparison between American and Brazilian Discursivities, since Kennedy’s words do not produce the same sense to the Brazilians as they do to the Americans