myAriel

Schedule

Week 1 (Lectures 1 & 2): Course Introduction and Syllabus.

· Introducing Translation Studies: Early History of Translation Studies; Translation in the 19th and Early 20th Century

· Preliminaries to translation as a process
· Preliminaries to translation as a product

· Cultural transposition

· Domestication and foreignisation

· Task

Week 2 (Lectures 3 & 4): Compensation

· Evaluating Translation Strategies.

· Preparing the Translation Activity

· Intralinguistic and extralinguistic instruction

· Equivalence

· Translation strategies

· Task

 

Week 3 (Lectures 5 & 6): Introducing AVT (Audio Visual Translation)

Guest lecture prof. Silvia Bruti (Pisa)

Experiencing Multilingual Audiovisual Content(s) in Original and Translated Versions: How Does It Shape Audience Perception?

 

Week 4 (Lectures 7 & 8): Journalistic translation

Week 5 (Lectures 9 & 10): Documentary translation

Week 6 (Lectures 11 & 12): Translating Specialised Texts: An overview of key factors; Text type and traslation; Culture-specificity and text type conventions. Informative texts: Translation tasks

Week 7 (Lectures 13 & 14): Translating legal texts; translation strategies; Equivalence in translating legal texts. Translating contracts: Tasks

Week 8 (Lectures 15 & 16): Corpora in Translation; Translating business letters

Week 9 (Lectures 17 & 18): Mock exams

Week 10 (Lectures 19 &20): In-course text; Text revision