- Docente: Sandra Nauert
- Credits: 5
- SSD: GERM-01/C
- Language: German
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 6604)
Learning outcomes
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Course contents
The main aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary tools to perform dialogue interpreting tasks while training them in identifying communicative situations and intentions, structuring and organizing content.
The course therefore aims to achieve the following learning objectives:
- improving skills in managing interpreting strategies;
- strengthening the ability to understand and produce a wide range of spoken discourse in Italian and German;
- expanding knowledge of specialized vocabulary related to various fields and of the preparatory research required prior to an interpreting assignment;
- strengthening one's responsiveness to lexical or other problems that might arise during the interaction;
- developing the ability to analyze and summarize spoken texts;
- enhancing memory techniques.
The communicative situations discussed will focus on the following topics: wine and food sector, cultural-touristic sector, trade, employment.
Readings/Bibliography
Baraldi C; Gavioli L (2012) (eds.) Coordinating participation in dialogue interpreting. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Buscha A; Linthout G (1997) Geschäftskommunikation. Verhandlungssprache. Ismaning: Max Hueber Verlag.
Cinato Kather L (2014) Mediazione linguistica Tedesco-Italiano. Aspetti teorici e applicativi, esempi di strategie traduttive, casi di testi tradotti. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli Editore.
Cirillo L; Niemants N (2017) Teaching dialogue interpreting. Research-based proposals for higher education. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Gavioli L; Wadensjö C (2023) (ed.) The Routledge handbook of public service interpreting. London/New York: Routledge.
Russo M; Mack G (eds.) (2005) Interpretazione di trattativa. La mediazione linguistico-culturale nel contesto formativo e professionale. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli Editore.
Russo M (ed.) Interpretare da e verso l'italiano. Didattica e innovazione per la formazione dell'interprete. Bologna: BUP. https://buponline.com/prodotto/interpretare-da-e-verso-litaliano/
Niemants N (2021). “Teoria e prassi dell’interpretazione dialogica” in Russo M (ed.), Interpretare da e verso l’italiano. Bologna: BUP, 41-60.
Wadensjö C (2002). “The double role of a dialogue interpreter” in Pöchhacker F; Shlesinger M (eds.) The Interpreting Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 355-370.
Teaching methods
Classes consist of two sessions per week. One session will be devoted to practical exercises in dialogue interpretation followed by detailed feedback. The second session will be dedicated to supplementary activities, such as sight translation, memorization, active listening, summarizing, rephrasing, note-taking, and vocabulary building.
Assessment methods
The final exam consists in a dialogue interpreting test: students will act as interpreters in a structured dialogue between the lecturers on a subject dealt with during the course. Furthermore, they will be asked to submit a glossary divided by topics.
Grading scale:
30–30L: Excellent performance, demonstrating full mastery of interpreting techniques and oral language skills (active and passive), outstanding quality of delivery, and excellent management of the interlinguistic and intercultural communicative situation.
27–29: Above-average performance, showing very good command of interpreting techniques and oral language skills (active and passive), high-quality delivery with only minor content or form inaccuracies, and very good handling of the interlinguistic and intercultural communicative situation.
24–26: Satisfactory performance, with some difficulties in the use of interpreting techniques and/or issues in the form or content of the oral delivery, but demonstrating an overall appropriate ability to manage the interlinguistic and intercultural communicative situation.
21–23: Sufficient performance, but with noticeable problems in interpreting techniques and/or significant content and form inaccuracies in the oral delivery, and a limited ability to manage the interlinguistic and intercultural communicative situation.
18–20: Barely sufficient performance, with serious technical shortcomings and/or substantial inaccuracies in the form and content of the delivery, and poor management of the interlinguistic and intercultural communicative situation.
> 18: The performance demonstrates inadequate acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and competences expected in the field of German-Italian dialogue interpreting.
University service for students with disabilities and SLD
Students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) or with disabilities that can affect their ability to attend courses are invited to contact the University service for students with disabilities and SLD at the earliest opportunity - ideally before the start of the course. The University service will suggest possible adjustments to the course work and/or exam, which must then be submitted to the course leader so they can assess their feasibility, in line with the learning objectives of the course. Please note that adjustments to the exam must be requested at least two weeks in advance.
Teaching tools
Relevant materials (such as vocabulary lists, transcripts of the interpreting sessions, articles, audio files) are made available by the lecturer during the course and on Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Sandra Nauert