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Specialist translation

Code: 117769
ECTS: 3.0
Lecturers in charge:
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1. komponenta

Lecture typeTotal
Proofreading exercises 45
* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)
Description:
The students should become familiar with basic features of translation skill and will be introduced to specialist texts of the kind they will be expected to handle in a professional context.
1th week: Overview
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
2nd week: Legal and administrative language: written words as mediators between institutions and public: sentence, order, enforcement etc.
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
3rd week: Linguistic characteristic of specialized texts. Passive and Impersonal Construction
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
4th week: Linguistic characteristic of specialist language: Imperatives and Modals
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
5th week: Linguistic characteristic of specialist language: Epistemic and Deontic readings in the specialist language
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
6th week: Semantic characteristics of specialist language: mono-referential expressions, hyperonym, semantic empathy, coherency and cohesion
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
7th week: Lexical characteristic of specialist language: nomina actionis, nomina instrumenti, nomina acti, collocations, invariant terminology, specialist koiné
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
8th week: Stylistic features of specialist language: stile commatico (point to point translation)
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
9th week: Models of Translation: Supported Translation, Automatic Translation, Corpora
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
10th week: Translation for Institutions from Croatian into Italian and vice versa. Glossary.
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
11th week: Test
12th week: Revision of Texts. Rules for Translator. Index of legibility (gulpease)
Exercises involving translation, working on the chosen texts, types of translation problems
13th week: Translation Midterm Exam
14th week: Identification, description and explanation of errors: syntactic, semantic and lexical errors.
15th week: Course Summary
Learning outcomes:
  1. Analyse a wide variety of text types
  2. Recognize the characteristic features of specialized texts
  3. Distinguish specific linguistic aspect of specialized texts
Literature:
  1. La traduzione specializzata. Lingue speciali e mediazione linguistica, Scarpa, Federica, Milano, Hoepli, 2001.
  2. Linguaggio giurdico-amministrativo, in Encicolpedia Treccani dell'Italiano, Cortelazzo A. Michele, 2010.
  3. Un treno di sintomi. I medici e le parole: percorsi linguistici nel passato e nel presente, Luca Serianni, Milano, Garzanti, 2005.
  4. Lingue speciali. La dimensione verticale, (III ediz.), Michele A. Cortelazzo, Padova, Unipress, 2007.
  5. Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Gualdo, Riccardo, Telve, Stefano, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
2. semester
Mandatory course - Regular studij - Italian Studies (Translator/Interpreter Education)
Consultations schedule: