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116-229/329 Introduction To Translation

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Contact: Three hours lectures/seminars a week.

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

• be able to translate methodically and accurately texts of average difficulty;
• be able to translate texts of different registers;
• have a good knowledge of basic translation theory.

Content:

This subject introduces the students to the basic ideas of translation theory, to the basic methods used in translation, and to the various difficulties encountered in different types of discourse (academic, scientific, literary registers for instance).

Assessment:

totalling not more than 5,000 words.

One oral presentation (15 minutes) (20 per cent), one essay (1,500 words) (20 per cent), practical exercises (1,000 words) (20 per cent), one two-hour test (40 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

• Vinay J-P and Darbelnet J Stylistique comparé e du franç ais et de l'anglais. Beauchemin 1970
• Adab, B. J. Annotated Texts for Translation Multilingual Matters Ltd
• Clevedon Philadelphia, Adelaide 1994

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 81)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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