English Language and Translation II
Equivalence at word level; The word in different languages; Lexical meaning; The problem of non-equivalence; Equivalence above word level; Collocation; Idioms and fixed expressions
Grammatical equivalence: Grammatical vs. lexical categories; word order;
Textual equivalence: thematic and information structures; A general overview based on the Hallidayan approach to information flow; The Prague school position on information flow: functional sentence perspective;
Introduction and historical overview; The Grammar-Translation Method; The pre-Reform approaches; The Reform Movement; The Direct Method; The Oral Method; Situational Language Teaching; Structural Language Teaching; The Audiolingual Method; Communicative Language Teaching;
Theoretical considerations on translation: Empirical research; Pedagogic proposals; Translation and Community Language Learning; Translation in Language Teaching;
Ecological approaches: Language as an ecosystem; Language and culture; Culture in language teaching;
Kramsch’s multilingual language pedagogy; The symbolic self; Symbolic competence; Teaching the multilingual subject; Tymoczko’s holistic cultural translation; The cross-cultural concept; Translation across the world; Illustrating representation, transmission, transculturation
A holistic approach to translating culture: teaching holistic translation methods; Holistic pedagogic translation: theoretical framework; Achieving symbolic competence; Translating cultural difference; Enhancing symbolic competence
Exploring the audiovisual message; Exploring the multimodal message; Translating the verbal message.