Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Loretta Murphy Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9783838305387
Описание
Loretta Murphy is a certified translator (ATIA & ATIO) working from PT and ES ->EN. In February, 2007, she successfully defended her masters thesis entitled “The Migration of Meaning: A Comparative Analysis of Orcamento Participativo In Porto Alegre And Participatory Budgeting In The Toronto Community Housing Corporation.” The objective was to analyze what happens when a program such as the “Orcamento Participativo” program established in the south of Brazil, becomes adopted and adapted by other countries, within different contexts. The focus was specifically on the understandings of some key words, which were important in Portuguese, and how the translated words were interpreted and understood in the Toronto context. Her field work included conducting interviews with participants in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and within the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One of the main findings was that this type of program...