LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN INTO ENGLISH AND FROM ENGLISH INTO ITALIAN

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Alphabetic division AK-LZ

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0860

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2017/2018

Divisions:

Cognomi M-Z

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Is part of:

LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN INTO ENGLISH AND FROM ENGLISH INTO ITALIAN

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SASSO Eleonora

IASENZA MARZIA

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

228

Objectives

The aim of the language course is to provide students with a thorough grounding in the basics of discourse analysis, Global English and corpus linguistics.
At the end of the course students will be expected to have:
- acquired the ability to develop reading and writing skills related to cohesion and coherence;
- acquired the skills to use different types of media languages;
- acquired the ability to create a corpus and describe the linguistic features in a corpus.

The translation module focuses on providing students with tools and methods for analyzing and translating texts about tourism (tourism, art, cultural heritage, etc.) between English and Italian, in order to highlight styles and communication strategies. A particular focus will be on determining the most appropriate translation strategies for the communication functions of the texts and on their lexical, terminological, pragmatic and stylistic features.

Contents

The translation module aims to develop the linguistic, analytical and translation tools needed to address the translation of various types of texts in the field of tourist communication.
Different types of texts and different levels of difficulty will be presented to students to discuss the best translation strategies to apply to each individual case. The genre and the textual function will be examined, and each piece will be thoroughly analysed from a content and linguistic point of view in preparation for passive or active translation. Particular emphasis will be placed on tools, including technology, to support terminology research and stylistic analysis. Students will be also given some fundamental theoretical concepts to set the analysis of the preliminary text for translation.

Extended Syllabus

The course aims at introducing students to the fundamentals of discourse analysis, defined as the analysis of language “beyond the sentence”. With their illuminating researches, Austin, Grice, Halliday and Leech have promoted the rapid development of discourse analysis concerned with language use in social contexts, and in particular with interaction or dialogue between speakers. The aspects of the context known as field, tenor and mode, as well as the notions of speech acts, and performative verbs will be closely investigated. The course will also focus on global English and the media by providing an insight on how the press, radio, advertising and especially television must have influenced the growth of world English.
According to David Crystal, English is the dominant language in world media and communications. For this reason, the language of the media (the press, advertising, broadcasting, cinema and the Web) will be examined in their linguistic and cultural peculiarities. Special attention will be devoted to corpus linguistics seen as a resource for increasing the students’ competence and capacity, developing reading and writing skills, providing communicative practice, increasing linguistic awareness, and developing learning autonomy. The process of compiling and analysing corpus data will be explained by introducing the most important existing English corpora.

The translation module aims to develop the linguistic, analytical and translation tools needed to address the translation of various types of texts in the field of tourist communication.
Different types of texts and different levels of difficulty (eg tourist guides, brochures, websites and so forth) will be presented to students to discuss the best translation strategies to apply to each individual case. The genre and the textual function will be examined, and each piece will be thoroughly analyzed from a content and linguistic point of view in preparation for passive or active translation. Particular emphasis will be placed on tools, including technology, to support terminology research and stylistic analysis. Students will be also given some fundamental theoretical concepts to set the analysis of the preliminary text for translation.

Recommended Bibliography

Language module (6 credits - Prof. Eleonora Sasso) for attending students:

- Brian Paltridge, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, London, Continuum, 2006 (Chapters 1, 3, 6);

- David Crystal, English As a Global Language, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Ch. 1, pp. 1-28; ch. 4: pp. 86-104);

- David Crystal, Language and the Internet, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Chapters 2, 4, 7, 8);

- Susan Hunston, Corpora in Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Chapters 1, 4).

Language module (6 credits - Prof. Eleonora Sasso) for non-attending students:

- Brian Paltridge, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, London, Continuum, 2006 (Chapters 1, 3, 6, 7);

- David Crystal, English As a Global Language, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Ch. 1, pp. 1-28; ch. 4: pp. 86-104);

- David Crystal, Language and the Internet, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Chapters 2, 4, 7, 8);

- Susan Hunston, Corpora in Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Chapters 1, 3, 4).

Translation Module (6 credits - Contract Professor) for attending students:
1. Palusci O., Francesconi S., Translating Tourism: Linguistic/Cultural Representations, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento, 2006.
2. Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Lingue speciali e mediazione linguistica Milano, Hoepli, 2001;
3. Munday J., Introducing Translation Studies, London, Routledge, 2001.

Teaching Methods

Language module: frontal lessons, seminars, and exercises of cohesion and coherence and text writing;

Translation Module: frontal lessons, translation exercises and practice of tourist texts from English into Italian and from Italian into English.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Language module: the written exam is comprised of multiple-choice questions on discourse analysis, exercises of cohesion and coherence and exercises of text linguistics; the oral exam will be on the topics of the language module (discourse analysis, Global English and corpus linguistics).

Translation module: the written exam will consist of the active and passive translation of two extracts similar to those analysed during the course. The test will last two hours and the use of bilingual/monolingual dictionaries will be allowed.

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"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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