Course code

SKA6122.HT

old course code

SKA6122

Course title in Estonian

Kirjalik tõlge

Course title in English

Written Translating

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Instruction in interpretation and in the use of different translation procedures for the translation of the texts, which belong to different types and genres, in the dependence on their designation.

Brief description of the course

Genres and the types of the texts: official, scientific and technical, popular science, juridical publicistic, artistic and so forth. Content, form, style, level (register). Function of text and its designation. Comparative analysis. Correlation of initial and transferring languages. Translation as process. Procedures of written translation. Translation is traditional and is innovative. Text analysis before the translation: grammatical, semantic, stylistic, pragmatic. Selection of translation strategy with the lingual mediation depending on audience and the degree of the importance of address translation. Translation training. Motivation of the solution of translation problems. Connectedness of text. On the adequacy of translation. Parallel texts. Translation practice.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Obtaining base theoretical knowledge and skills.

Teacher

Boriss Baljasnõi, PhD

Study programmes containing that course

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Humanities (KKHB/15.HT)
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Russian Philology (SKVB/12.HT)
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