Università Roma Tre

The course aims to extend the translation student’s knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of translation, including issues of intercultural and intermedial translation, terminology, specialized translation. Specialized, academic and literary texts will provide the basis for translation practice.
Translation theory: language and cultural aspects in varied text types; analysis of translation strategies and problem-solving procedures. Terminology and translation; terminological records. Key issues in literary translation. Text analysis applied to specialized and literary texts.
Translation practice (English to Italian): text analysis and translation techniques; training in the application of translation strategies and problem-solving procedures; training in terminology; training in sight translation (intermediate level). Online resources; corpus analysis and related software (lab classes).
Classroom activities include: frontal teaching; power point presentation; dictation; sight translation; written translation practice.

Prescribed texts
P. Faini, Tradurre. Manuale teorico e pratico, Carocci, 2008 (chs 7-8).

P. Faini, Terminology Management and the Translator. From Project Planning to Database Creation, Tangram, Trento, 2014 (free library consultation)
F. Scarpa, La traduzione specializzata, Hoepli, 2001 (ch. 2, 27-66) (free library consultation)
Practice materials and resources are posted weekly on teacher’s website.

Reference works
(texts not included in the programme but useful to non-attending students)
J. Delisle, H. Lee Jahnke, M.C. Cormier, Terminologia della traduzione, M. Ulrych ed., Hoepli, 2002
M. Gotti, Investigating Specialized Discourse, Peter Lang, 2005
P. Newmark, La traduzione. Problemi e metodi, Garzanti
S. Cavagnoli, La comunicazione specialistica, Carocci, 2007
R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, A University Grammar of English, Longman
L. Serianni, Italiano, Garzanti