70313 - Chinese Liaison Interpreting I (Second Language)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Course contents

The course will be held in the second semester.

This course will focus on the following grammatical topics:result complements, quantity complement, time complements, potential complements, direction complements, 把 sentence, passive structure and comparative constructions.

Readings/Bibliography

Masini F., Zhang Tongbing, Bai Hua, Di Toro A., Liang Dongmei. Il Cinese per gli Italiani, Vol 2. Hoepli, 2010.

Romagnoli C., Grammatica cinese, Hoepli, 2012.

Abbiati M., Grammatica di cinese moderno, Libreria editrice Cafoscarina, 1998.

Casacchia G., Bai Yukun, Dizionario cinese - italiano, Cafoscarina, 2013.

Xiandai hanyu cidian 现代汉语词典. Shanghai: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2016.

Teaching methods

Interactive frontal lectures with ppt files support.

Exercises on memorization and translation, listening and synthesis of audiovisual material will also be proposed.

This course requires the obligation to attend at least 70% of the lessons.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists in two tests:

- writing test: grammatical exercises, and translation of short sentences from Chinese into Italian and viceversa

- oral test: questions about the grammatical topics studied for the course

Teaching tools

Reading materials, photocopied texts, videos, coursework.

Office hours

See the website of Ying Ying Ding