Written Translating
Course code
SKA6019.HT
old course code
SKA6019
Course title in Estonian
Kirjalik tõlge
Course title in English
Written Translating
ECTS credits
5.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring 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.
Obtaining base theoretical knowledge and skills.
Teacher
Lekt. Boriss Baljasnõi, PhD
Prerequisite course 1
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