ENGLISH LANGUAGE: TRANSLATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ELEONORA FEDERICI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- LINGUE, LETTERATURE E TRADUZIONE
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/12
Training objectives
- Students will acquire a linguistic, communicative and cultural competence of oral and written English (level C1/C2 QCER). Students will acquire theoretical tools (Cultural Turn theories) and will practice literary translation from English into Italian.
Prerequisites
- Students should be in possession of a first degree and have competence in English of a level of at least B2.
Course programme
- The course is divided into a theoretical part and a practical one. The theoretical part offers a panorama on the main aspects on Cultural Translation, while the practice will be done on literary texts of various periods and contexts. Students are asked to participate actively and take part to translation workshops.
Didactic methods
- Theoretical lessons, analysis of translated texts, practical workshops in class and at home.
Learning assessment procedures
- Students who attend are asked to prepare a portfolio of the works done during the course. They will also present a translation with critical comment on a subject that has to be accepted by the teacher.
Oral exam for students who will not attend the lessons and will not participate to translation workshops. Reference texts
- S. Bassnett, Translation, Routledge, London 2014
(google classroom)
E. Federici “Whodunit? Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction and the ‘Oblique’ Translation of Murder on the Orient Express under Fascism” in P. Godayol and A. Taronna, (eds.) Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2018, pp. 36-61. (google classroom)
“My Place/La mia Australia: Translating Sally Morgan’s Polyphonic and Gendered Text into Italian” in E. Federici and V. Leonardi, (eds.), Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies, Cambridge Scholar Publishing House, pp. 131-147 (google classroom)
Federici, E. e V. Leonardi, “Using and Abusing Gender in Translation. The Case of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own Translated into Italian” Quaderns, Revista de traducciò Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, pp.183-198.
E. Federici Translation Theory and Practice Cultural Differences in Tourism and Advertising, Loffredo editore 2018
Primary texts available in google classroom.
