ENGLISH LANGUAGE II

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0002

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SASSO Eleonora

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

105

Prerequisites:

English Language I

Objectives

The aim of the course, which helps to reach the learning objectives of
the postgraduate degree course in “Modern Languages, Literatures and
Cultures”, is to provide students with a thorough grounding in the basics
of subtitling, interpreting for cultural tourism and cognitive linguistics.
The topics covered in the course provide a basis for translation and
interpreting jobs in the private or public sectors, as well as in the
Government Ministries.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course students will be expected to have:
- acquired the ability to describe and apply such subtitling strategies as
condensation, segmentation and translation of culture-bound words;
- acquired the skills to use the basic principles of note-taking;
- acquired the ability to analyse and comment visual and literary texts
from a cognitive perspective.
Making judgements
At the end of the course students will be expected to have:
- acquired the ability to connect theoretical and practical issues in
translation and interpreting studies;
- acquired the ability to explain subtitling and note-taking strategies;
- acquired the ability to make judgements on linguistic and visual aspects
of works of art and literary texts.
Communication skills
At the end of the course students will be able to:
- discuss different inter- and intralinguistic subtiling strategies ;
-provide technincal and practical information about interpreting and
subtitling both to specialists and non-specialists;
- use specialised cognitive terminology in art museum contexts.

Contents

The course aims at providing students with such linguistic and mediating
tools as subtitling and interpreting for cultural heritage tourism, two of
the most eligible multimodal practices fostering intercultural knowledge.
As fields of professional training and research in intercultural and crosscultural
communication, audiovisual modalities and conference interpreting are
able to develop the students’ linguistic competence and capacity in
today’s globalized world and to train them to be employed as cultural
operators in diplomatic and tourist sectors. The course will also be
devoted to teach such a topic as ‘Intersemiosis: Language, Cognition and
the Arts’ in order to develop the students’ cognitive tools to analyse
visual and literary texts. Intersemiotic translation will be introduced as
the paramount example of interconnection between arts and cultures.

Extended Syllabus

The course aims at providing students with such linguistic and mediating
tools as subtitling and conference interpreting through which it is possible
to foster international cooperation. As fields of professional practice and
research in intercultural and cross-cultural communication, subtitling and
conference interpreting are able to develop the students’ linguistic
competence and capacity in today’s globalized world.
As a particular form of audiovisual modality, subtitling appears to be an
intermodal kind of language rendering intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic
cultural elements from one culture into another. In particular, subtitling
may be considered a specific type of intra- and interlingual discourse
presenting a series of lexical, syntactical and typographical
characteristics which will be closely investigated. The linguistic aspects of
subtitling as well as the so-called text reduction shifts will also be treated
in order to demonstrate how the fusions of cultures produce hybrid
cultural artefacts, combining source and target texts.
Likewise, conference interpreting, whose aim is to help individuals and
communities to acquire a fuller knowledge and a deeper understanding of
one another, will be introduced as a form of linguistic and cultural
mediation in such a multilingual market as the European Union. The
traditional mode of interpreting i.e. consecutive interpreting will be
introduced along with Rozan’s seven basic principles of note-taking in
order to develop the students’ mediating skills.
The course will also be devoted to teach such a topic as ‘Intersemiosis:
Language, Cognition and the Arts’ by introducing textual typologies and
cultural contexts from a cognitive perspective. Such cognitive tools as
conceptual metaphors, blending, scripts and schemas, prominence,
figure, ground, parables, prototypes, deixis and text world theory will be
used to comment and analyse works of art and literary texts.

Recommended Bibliography

Course Books (attending students)
- Jorge Díaz-Cintas e Aline Remael, Audiovisual Translation, Subtitling
(Translation Practices Explained), London and New York, Routledge, 2014
(Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; written and oral exams);
- Eleonora Sasso, “Subtitling Gender and Humour in Douglas McGrath’s
Emma”, Translating LSP in Literature through a Gender Perspective, eds.
Eleonora Federici, Federico Pio Gentile and Margaret Rogers, Anglistica
AION 22.2 (2018), issn 2035-8504, pp. 95-102 (oral exam).
-“Trespassing Cultural Boundaries in Audiovisual Media: Aboriginal Female Discourse and Cultural Heritage in Maïna”, Thinking Out of the Box in Literary and Cultural Studies, Proceedings of the XXIX AIA Conference, eds. Rocco Coronato, Marilena Parlati and Alessandra Petrina, Padova, Padova University Press, 2021, pp. 379-392 (oral exam).
- Rozan, J. F., Note Taking in Consecutive Interpreting, trans. Andrew
Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004 (written and oral exams).
-Peter Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics. An Introduction, London and New
York, Routledge, 2002 (Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10; written and oral
exams).
- Sasso, Eleonora, The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and
Cognition in Remediations of the East, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Press, 2018 (Introduction, Chapters I, II, IV; oral exam);
-Raffaella Picello, Understanding Heritage, English for Cultural Heritage,
Tourism and the Visual Arts, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2016 (oral exam - note-taking);

Course Books (non-attending students)
- Luis Pérez-Gonzalez, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and
Issues, New York, Routledge, 2014 (Part I – capitolo 1; Part II– capitolo 4;
oral exam);
- Jorge Díaz-Cintas e Aline Remael, Audiovisual Translation, Subtitling
(Translation Practices Explained), London and New York, Routledge, 2014
(Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; written and oral exams);
- Eleonora Sasso, “Subtitling Gender and Humour in Douglas McGrath’s
Emma”, Translating LSP in Literature through a Gender Perspective, eds.
Eleonora Federici, Federico Pio Gentile and Margaret Rogers, Anglistica
AION 22.2 (2018), issn 2035-8504, pp. 95-102 (oral exam).
-“Trespassing Cultural Boundaries in Audiovisual Media: Aboriginal Female Discourse and Cultural Heritage in Maïna”, Thinking Out of the Box in Literary and Cultural Studies, Proceedings of the XXIX AIA Conference, eds. Rocco Coronato, Marilena Parlati and Alessandra Petrina, Padova, Padova University Press, 2021, pp. 379-392 (prova orale).
Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004 (written and oral exams).
-Peter Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics. An Introduction, London and New
York, Routledge, 2002 (Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10; written and oral
exams).
- Sasso, Eleonora, The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and
Cognition in Remediations of the East, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Press, 2018 (Introduction, Chapters I, II, IV; oral exam)
-Jacob, Miriam, and Peter Strutt, English for International Tourism,
Longman/Pearson, 2009 (oral exam).
-Raffaella Picello, Understanding Heritage, English for Cultural Heritage,
Tourism and the Visual Arts, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2016 (oral exam).

Teaching Methods

It is a 42-hour course of in-class instructor-led lectures arranged in 2-hour
lessons held two times weekly. The course is devoted to teach subtitling,
note-taking, and cognitive stylistics. Lessons, and seminars will be
followed by activities and exercises aimed at developing subtitling, notetaking
and cognitive stylistics.
Course attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended and the
written exam will be the same for both attending and non-attending
students.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

By aggregating the grade points obtained in the written exam with the
oral exam’s grade point, the overall grade point average for the course
can be determined.
Access to the oral exam is only possible once a student has passed the
written exam (18/30).
The oral exam, conducted in English, will test the knowledge and
comprehension of audiovisual translation, note-taking in conference
interpreting and cognitive stylistics. Note-taking skills will also be tested
by listening twice to a 20-30-second audio track on cultural heritage
tourism. Students will interpret the speech with the help of notes.
In order to pass the exam, students must use specialised terminology and
express him/herself in a coherent and clear way demonstrating logic skills
that connect different aspects of subtitling, interpreting and English for
cultural heritage tourism.

Contacts/More Information

Further didactic material will be available at the photocopy store and in
the sections "files" on Microsoft Teams.

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