70318 - Translation from Italian into Chinese I (Second Language)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Yan Wen
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: L-OR/21
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Course contents

As initial efforts on italian>chinese translation, the students will be asked to treat daily themes conversations and short extract texts, where they will be shown the different expression features of the two languages and basic translating strategy.

During the next phase, texts regarding italian culture will be analysed, with special attention on their syntactic structures and specific vocabularies adopted.

Duration of the course: 40 ore

Compulsory course attendance

Readings/Bibliography

Translation materials will be available on Moodle platform.

Reference text (in italiano):

Abbiati M., (2015) La lingua cinese, Venezia: Cafoscarina, cap. 1-2

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures

Assessment methods

The final assessment will be a writing test, during which the students will be requested to traslante two short extracts from Italian to Chinese. Dictionaries allowed only in the second translation. No internet connection or glossary is allowed during the test.

Vote of this course will be a part of the final result of the course "Translation between Italian and Chinese I".

Teaching tools

Chinese - italian dictionaries:

Zhao X., (2013) Il dizionario cinese-italiano, italiano-cinese, Bologna: Zanichelli

and

Casacchia, G., Bai Y., (2013) Dizionario cinese-italiano, Venezia: Cafoscarina.

Suggested for the use of Xuci :

Romagnoli C., (2016) Grammatica cinese, Milano: Hoeplin

Office hours

See the website of Yan Wen