70071 - Translation from Russian into Italian I (Second Language)

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 Russian. 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 aim of the course is to provide students with the basic theoretical and practical tools for translation from Russian into Italian. The topics covered in the Russian texts (levels A2-B1) will be of general culture and will cover geography, tourism, holidays, national cuisine, mass-media and history. Particular attention will be paid to the linguistic analysis of the source text, thus consolidating the grammatical knowledge acquired, and its communicative function, in order to develop a specific translation project that provides the most appropriate translation strategies. The main theoretical and translation problems will also be presented with the help of examples.

Readings/Bibliography

Bonciani D., Romagnoli R., Smykunova N. MIR TESEN, Hoepli, 2016

Testi di approfondimento

Dobrovolskaja, Ju., Il russo: l’ABC della traduzione, Milano: Hoepli, 2016.

Nergaard S. (a cura di), La teoria della traduzione nella storia, Milano: Bompiani, 2002.

Nergaard S. (a cura di), Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Milano: Bompiani, 1995.

Osimo, B., Manuale del traduttore, Milano: Hoepli, 2016.

Salmon, L., Teoria della traduzione. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2017.

Dizionari e corpora:

Majzel', B., Skvorcova, N., Bolšoj russko-ital'janskij slovar', Moskva: Russkij jazyk, 2001.

Zor’ko, G., Majzel', B., Skvorcova, N., Novyj ital’jansko-russkij slovar’, Moskva: Russkij jazyk, 1995.

Dobrovolskaja, Ju., Grande dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo, Milano: Hoepli, 2011.ù

Ožegov, S., Švedova, N., Tolkovyj slovar' russkogo jazyka, Moskva: Az’’ Ltd., 1992.

Kuznecov, S., Bol’šoj tolkovyj slovar’ russkogo jazyka, Sankt-Peterburg: Norint, 2004.

Prochorov, A. gl. red., Bol’šoj ènciklopedičeskijj slovar’, Sankt-Peterburg: Norint, 1999.

Slovar’ Lingvo Live http://www.abbyyonline.com/ru

www.ruscorpora.ru

Teaching methods

The lessons, which require 70% attendance, will be of the seminar type, but will also include some moments of frontal lesson dedicated to the theoretical and methodological aspects of translation. In the discussion phases, the active participation of all students is required. You will be asked to deliver some work done at home, on which you will be given individual feedback. Exercises are planned using only the monolingual dictionary to develop the ability to identify the translation equivalents.

Students will work individually and sometimes in small groups. Simulations of the examination will also be carried out, the evaluation of which will not affect the final evaluation.

Assessment methods

A written exam consisting in a Russian text to be translated into Italian with the use of paper dictionaries and online resources.

Total Length: 300 words. Time: 3 hours.

Teaching tools

• Computer, video-projector, Internet connection
• Common paper dictionaries
• On line and cd-rom dictionaries
• Monolingual and parallel corpora
• E-learning platform (http://moodle.sslmit.unibo.it/)

Links to further information

https://moodle.sslmit.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=1255

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Biagini