69565 - Translation from Italian into Russian II (Second Language)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the students with the methodology and the tools necessary to translate different text-types from Italian into Russian.

Course contents

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the strategies and the methodology for the translation of different types of texts into Russian.

During the course the main translation difficulties will be examined, such as specific morphosyntactic structures, lexics and cultural concepts that have no direct equivalents in the Russian language. The course consists of the practical lessons that aim at developing the student's skills to analyze the original texts and to produce an adequate translation into Russian by making all the necessary structural transformations and stylistic choices. A special attention will be paid to the use of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, text corpora, the Internet and other tools.

Texts on historical and cultural themes as well as tourism-related texts will be proposed for the translation.

Readings/Bibliography

Texts will be provided during the course.

Dobrovolskaja J. (2016) Il Russo: l'ABC della traduzione. Hoepli, Milano

Petrova J. (2000) I gradini della traduzione. CLUEB, Bologna

Assessment methods

Written examination: translation of a text on one of the arguments studied during the course with the use of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. The length of the text - 200-250 words. Available time - two hours.

Office hours

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