69638 - Techniques of Interpreting from Italian into Spanish - B Language

Learning outcomes

The student is familiar with, and able to use, basic interpreting techniques (including sight translation, chuchotage, note-taking on an introductory level) from Italian into Spanish

Course contents

Knowledge and skills to be gained

The student masters basic interpreting skills (e.g. sight translation, whispering interpretation (chuhotage), introduction to note-taking) from Italian into Spanish, is proficient in both Italian and Spanish and has very good general knowledge.

Programme/Contents

The course will focus on the development of the student's ability to analyze, understand and reformulate a speech in Spanish.

Also, the course will include a theoretical introduction (false friends, morphosyntactic asymmetries, etc.) and exercises to improve the necessary skills and knowledge.

The classes will focus on current affairs, politics, economics, socio-cultural issues at national and international level, with particular attention to European Union, Spain and Latin America.

On the basis of the texts used for practical exercises, the following aspects will be highlighted:

contrastive analysis of the grammatical, lexical, pragmatic and cultural features of both languages and, within the Spanish language, of the differences between Iberian and Latin American Spanish;

analysis of redundant information and development of synthesis and oral presentation skills;

development of strategies against destabilising factors (such as, for example, speaking rate, statements without cohesion and/or consistency;

targeted exercises for the gradual learning of sight translation, and consecutive and simultaneous interpreting skills.

Classes will be held in Spanish.

Readings/Bibliography

Falbo Caterina, Russo Mariachiara and Straniero Sergio, Francesco (by) (1999) L'interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva. Problemi teorici e metodologie didattiche, Milan, Hoepli.

Recommended texts:

Abuín González, M. (2007) El proceso de interpretación consecutiva. Un estudio del binomio problema/estrategia, Granada, Comares.

Baigorri-Jalón, Jesús (2000) La interpretación de conferencias: el nacimiento de una profesión. De París a Nuremberg, Granada, Comares.

Blasco Mayor, M.J. (2007) La comprensión oral en el desarrollo de la pericia de la interpretación de conferencias, Granada, Comares.

Collados Aís, Á. and Fernández Sánchez M.M. (coords.) (2001), Manual de interpretación bilateral, Granada, Editorial Comares.

Kelly, Dorothy, Martin, Anne, Nobs, Marie-Louise, Sánchez, Dolores and Way, Catherine (eds.) (2003) La direccionalidad en traducción e interpretación. Perspectivas teóricas, profesionales y didácticas. Granada, Editorial Atrio.

Collados Aís Ángela, Fernandez Sánchez Ma. Manuela, and Gile, Daniel (eds.) (2003) La evaluación de la calidad en interpretación: investigación, Granada, Editorial Comares.

Collados Aís, Ángela (1998) La evaluación de la calidad en interpretación simultánea. La importancia de la comunicación no verbal, Granada, Editorial Comares.

Iliescu Gheorghiu, Catalina (2001) Introducción a la interpretación. La modalidad consecutiva, Alicante, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante.

Russo M., (1990) "Disimetrías y actualización: un experimento de interpretación simultánea (español-italiano)", in Aspects of applied and experimental research on conference interpretation, Laura Gran and Christopher  Taylor  (by), Udine, Campanotto, pp. 158-225.

Russo, M. and Mack G. (by) (2005) Interpretazione di trattativa. La mediazione linguistico-culturale nel contesto formativo e professionale, Milan, Hoepli.

Teaching methods

Practical exercises on all teaching objectives. In particular, the course will focus on:

analysis of texts, with particular focus on logical-semantic relations;

identification of key concepts in a text;

oral summaries of texts read in class or of recorded texts (audio and video), with or without taking notes;

vocabulary activation through paraphrase, and the use of synonyms and antonyms;

exercises for the presentation of prepared or impromptu speeches.

 

Assessment methods

The learning of interpreting skills (sight translation, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting) will be assessed through practical exercises from Italian into Spanish on the same topics and of the same duration of those carried out throughout the year.

Teaching tools

The material used will be as follows:

Statements given by representatives of the Italian Parliament and of the EU; articles taken from newspapers and magazines, audio-tapes, video-tapes and statements given by Italian speakers during real working situations; audio-visual material taken from the Internet.

Office hours

See the website of Claudio Tugnoli