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MHCG1311 - Translation Theory
Credits :
5
Lecturers :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , second term, 45 hours of theory.
Language of instruction :
French
Learning outcomes :
On completing this Course students should be able to:
- define the methods and the basic concepts related to the theoretical approaches to translation discussed in the Course;
- make a distinction between semantic and pragmatic text components relevant to translation;
- have a full command of the basic concepts of discourse analysis;
- identify linguistic features specific to scientific and technical genres in French;
- apply theoretical concepts studied in the course to case analyses;
- read, understand and summarize scientific papers related to the topics studied in the course.
Prerequisites :
None
Co-requisites :
None
Course contents :
- General overview of three approaches to the study of translation: corpus-based, experimental, and cognitive approaches.
- Distinction between semantic and pragmatic text components (decoding vs. inferential interpretation) and its application to translation.
- Basic concepts of discourse analysis (coherence: thematic progression and information packaging; argumentative moves and discourse relations; enunciative pragmatics: deictics, modalisation, (de)subjectivation).
- Genre and register variation: scientific and technical genre analysis in French from a contrastive and translational perspective.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Lectures; Course Readings.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Written exam. The assessment relates to:
— students' integration and understanding of the theoretical concepts studied during the course;
— their ability to understand and summarise the essential hypotheses put forward in the articles included in the Course Readings.
The certificative asessment of this module consists of a single exam. It is therefore not possible to transfer any part of the grade.
Students resitting the exam for this course in 2019-20 will be assessed on the course material of the current year, i.e. 2019-20.
Recommended or required reading :
The Course Readings are made available at the beginning of the Course.
Other information :
The PowerPoint presentation for the course is made available online progressively.
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