ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION I

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0700

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

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:

152

Prerequisites:

English Language and Translation II

Contents

The course aims at providing students with such linguistic and mediating tools as subtitling and conference interpreting, two of the most eligible multimodal practices fostering international cooperation. As fields of professional training and research in intercultural and cross-cultural communication, audiovisual modalities and conference interpreting are able to develop the students’ linguistic competence and capacity in today’s globalized world. The course will also be devoted to teach such a topic as “Business English, corpora and translation” by introducing the typical sample texts and contexts of Business English which will be analysed from a corpus-based perspective. With the aid of monolingual and bilingual specialised comparable corpora students will be able to translate the main business documents (correspondence, contracts, agreements, reports and so forth) from English into Italian and from Italian into English.

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 “Business English, corpora and translation” by exposing students to the typical sample texts and contexts of Business English used as a Lingua Franca in many areas of the world. After practicing such business writing skills as rephrasing, gap filling and text writing, students will be able to edit business writing in terms of sentence linking, structure and length. With the aid of monolingual and bilingual specialised comparable corpora students will be able to translate the main business documents (correspondence, contracts, agreements, reports and so forth) from English into Italian and from Italian into English.

Recommended Bibliography

Language module - 6 credits (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);
- Rozan, J. F., Note Taking in Consecutive Interpreting, trans. Andrew Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004.
- Catherine Nickerson and Brigitte Planken, eds., Introducing Business English, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2016 (Part I – Chapters 1 , 2, Part III – Chapter 6, 7, Part IV – Chapter 9).

Language module - 6 credits (non-attending students):

- Luis Pérez-Gonzalez, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, New York, Routledge, 2014 (Part I – Chapter 1; Part II– Chapters 4);
- Jorge Díaz-Cintas e Aline Remael, Audiovisual Translation, Subtitling (Translation Practices Explained), London and New York, Routledge, 2014 (Ch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7);
- Rozan, J. F., Note Taking in Consecutive Interpreting, trans. Andrew Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004.
- Catherine Nickerson and Brigitte Planken, eds., Introducing Business English, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2016 (Part I – Chapters 1 , 2; Part III – Chapter 6, 7; Part IV – Chapter 9).

Translation module (attending students):

- Marie-Madeleine Kenning, “What are parallel and comparable corpora and how can we use them?”, in Anne O’Keeffe and Michael McCarthy, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. 487-500.
- Maeve Olohan, “Commercial translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 41 -44.
- M. Teresa Cabré, “Terminology and translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 356 -365.

Translation module (non-attending students):

- Marie-Madeleine Kenning, “What are Parallel and Comparable Corpora and How Can We Use Them?”, in Anne O’Keeffe and Michael McCarthy, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. 487-500.
- Maeve Olohan, “Commercial translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 41 -44.
- M. Teresa Cabré, “Terminology and translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 356 -365.
- Antoinette Meehan e Frances Watkins, eds., The Business 2.0 Student’s Book Advanced Level (The Business 20 Advanced Level), London, Macmillan, 2013.

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