- Docente: Maria Soledad Aguilar Domingo
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-LIN/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to apply basic translation instruments (grammar, dictionaries and textual aspects) as well as methods (source text analysis and its transposition into the translated text) in the translation of a variety of simple texts from Italian into Spanish. The student will also be able to identify and apply the most appropriate basic translation strategies to fulfil the communicative/operational functions of the source text.
Course contents
The objective of the course is:
Translate from Italian to Spanish texts of different types of texts, mainly of informative nature and with an increasing degree of complexity with the purpose of stimulating reflection on the problems of translation between related languages.
Students will translate a variety of texts as:
- art texts
- children's literature
Readings/Bibliography
Diccionaries and online resources:
Arqués / Padoan (2012). Il grande dizionario di spagnolo. Bologna: Zanichelli.
CLAVE, Diccionario de uso del español actual (2002). Madrid: Ediciones SM.
Fundación del Español Urgente ‹http://www.fundeu.es/›
Garzanti (2009), Dizionario di spagnolo. Milano: Garzanti Linguistica.
Moliner, M. (2007) Diccionario de uso del español. Madrid: Gredos (3 ed.).
Real Academia Española (2015), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23.ª ed. ‹http://www.rae.es/obras-academicas/diccionarios/diccionario-de-la-lengua-espanola›
Real Academia Española, Corpes, Corpus del español del siglo XXI,http://www.rae.es/recursos/banco-de-datos/corpes-xxi›.
Real Academia Española, CREA, ‹http://www.rae.es/recursos/banco-de-datos/crea›
REDES, Diccionario Combinatorio del español contemporáneo (2004). Madrid: Ediciones SM.
Reference Bibliography :
Agencia Efe. (1995) Manual de Español Urgente, Madrid: Cátedra
Calvi, M.V., 2006, Lengua y comunicación en el español del turismo. Madrid: Arco Libros.
Elena García P. (1996). "La documentación en la traducción general" in La enseñanza de la traducción, A. Hurtado Albir (ed.). Barcelona:Universitat Jaume.
Gamero Pérez S.(2001). La traducción de textos técnicos, Barcelona: Ariel.
Gonzalo García C. y García Yebra V. (2004) Manual de documentación y terminología para la traducción especializada.Madrid: Arco-libros.
Teaching methods
The lesson is designed as a laboratory. We will carry out activities of analysis, documentation, translation, proofreading and commentary.
All students must come to the lesson with his/her version of the translation exercise, both printed and saved on USB device.
Assessment methods
The final exam will consist in translating a text from Spanish into Italian and one from Italian to Spanish. As far as the translation into Spanish is concerned, the text of the exam will be similar to those translated during the course.
The exam consists of a three hours translation from Italian into Spanish.
Students will be allowed to use PC witn an internet connection, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.
It would be evaluated:
- the ability to analyse the source text
- writing skills in Spanish
Teaching tools
Pc with an internet connection, dictionaries.
Office hours
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