69305 - Translation from English into Italian I (First Language) (CL2)

Learning outcomes

Students will come to know basic instruments (grammar books, dictionaries and corpora) and basic translation methodology and strategies (analysis of a source text and its transposition into a target text). They will also be able to apply instruments and strategies while translating a variety of simple texts from and into English. They will finally be able to identify and use the translation strategies that are most useful for the communicative functions of the texts to be translated.

Course contents

The course aims at introducing students to the practice and theory of translation processes, with particular attention to the direction English > Italian.
Students will be shown how to approach a variety of texts corresponding to a variety of translation problems. Students will be asked to discuss different strategies to be applied to every single text or problem. All texts will be analysed from different perspectives: genre, function, content and language/style.
Text typologies: journalistic texts, touristic texts, reviews, pseudo-scientific texts, literary texts and promotional texts.

Class 1 > teacher Adele D'Arcangelo

Class 2 & Class 3 > teacher Annalisa Crea

Readings/Bibliography

All texts will always be made available on the Moodle e-learning platform, also if/when formerly distributed by the instructor.

 

Bibliographical references that will be used during the course or assigned for self study:
- Munday Jeremy, 2012. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and applications, London and New York: Routledge.
- Venuti Lawrence, 2004. The Translation Studies Reader, London and New York: Routledge.
- Dictionaries: Students can choose editions. All Learner's dictionaries and monolingual dictionaries (Italian and English) and thesauruses will be accepted.

Teaching methods

Attendance is compulsory (70% of classes need to be attended). Lessons will focus mainly on individual and collective practice. Students will be asked to discuss their ideas and difficulties as well as to turn in assignments that will be used for individual or collective feedback lessons.

Assessment methods

Due to the COVID-19 emergency students will be allowed to take the exam online.
The exam will consist of a translation test. Students will have two hours to translate a text (of about 250 words) from English into Italian. The text will be similar to those analyzed during the course.

Students will only be allowed to use the OXFORD online Dictionary and the TRECCANI online Dictionary (Treccani is also a thesaurus).
We will give more instructions about the platform where the exam will be uploaded, but make sure you are all registered both on Teams and on Moodle.
The ENG>ITA translation is a module of the integrated course for which students will also take an ITA>ENG translation module during the II semester.
The final grade is determined by an average of both components (Weight: 50% ENG>ITA translation, 50% ITA>ENG translation).

Teaching tools

During labs and if/when necessary, teachers will be using online dictionaries as well as the Internet to do research.

Office hours

See the website of Annalisa Crea