Questão de Inglês — Falso Cognatos | False Cognates — UNIVALI 2025
InglêsFalso Cognatos | False Cognates
- Código
- qg626602
- Banca
- UNIVALI
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 12
Read the excerpt below:"For the first time the artist makes such a large-scale performance in the city where he was born."An English teacher analyzing this sentence with advanced students identifies a potential ambiguity in the noun "performance" within this artistic context. When discussing polysemy, context-dependent meaning, and the semantic challenges this presents for translation into Portuguese, particularly distinguishing between "performance" as artistic presentation versus "performance" as theatrical/live art form, the most linguistically precise interpretation considering the broader textual context of an art exhibition would be_________.Fill in the blank above and select the correct alternative.
- AThe word "performance" here functions as a false cognate creating translation difficulty, and should be rendered as "apresentação" or "mostra" in Portuguese, as the context indicates a static exhibition of visual works rather than live performance art, with "large-scale performance" meaning comprehensive presentation or showing.
- B"Performance" in this context is semantically equivalent to "actuação" in Portuguese, suggesting the artist will perform theatrical actions, and the sentence structure with "makes" instead of "gives" or "presents" confirms this interpretation unambiguously.
- CThe term represents technical art vocabulary that must remain untranslated as "performance" in Portuguese to preserve authentic contemporary art discourse, as Brazilian Portuguese has fully adopted this English loanword with identical meaning across all contexts.
- D"Performance" should be translated literally as "desempenho" in Portuguese, maintaining the cognate form, as this preserves the semantic field related to achievement and execution quality regardless of artistic context considerations.