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

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Ying Wang
  • 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 phrases 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

Reference text:

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

Romagnoli C., (2016) Grammatica cinese, Milano: Hoepli (per consultazione)

Dictionaries:

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

or

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

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures

Assessment methods

The final assessment will be a writing test, during which the students will be requested to traslante a text from Italian to Chinese. Dictionaries and glossaries allowed but No automatic translation softwares/tools.

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

Teaching tools

texts, dictionaries e Moodle

Office hours

See the website of Ying Wang