ENGLISH LANGUAGE II

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0002

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

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 cross-cultural
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

(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).
-Eleonora Sasso,“Canadian Subtitling, Conceptual Metaphors and Native Diversity” in Trim Richard, and Dorota Śliwa, eds., Metaphor and Translation, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 185-197; ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-3749-1; ISBN-10: 1-5275-3749-8 (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);

Testi (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).
-Eleonora Sasso, “Canadian Subtitling, Conceptual Metaphors and Native Diversity” in Trim Richard, and Dorota Śliwa, eds., Metaphor and Translation, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 185-197; ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-3749-1 (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)
-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, note-taking 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.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

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