Translation Practice: Social and Human Sciences (Portuguese to English)
Objectives
a) To acquire the competences required to translate from Portuguese into English
b) To acquire an understanding of the main domains of the humanities and social sciences
c) To reflect upon and improve strategies for solving the terminological and notional-cultural difficulties when translating Portuguese texts into English
d) To develop an awareness of stylistic similarities and differences at sentence and paragraph level between source and target texts
e) To acquire the ability to collate data and produce glossaries
f) To develop the ability to reflect upon and self assess your own translations
g) To further develop English language skills and linguistic competence
General characterization
Code
711121056
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Richard Denman Sidaway
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Minimum B2 (CEFR) level of English
Bibliography
BAKER, Mona (2011). In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation.
London/New York: Routledge. 2nd edition
KATAN, David (2004). Translating Cultures: An Introduction for Translators,
Interpreters and Mediators. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing. 2nd edition
NEWMARK, Peter (2003). A Textbook of Translation. Essex: Longman.
Teaching method
Presentation of the Social Sciences and Humanities to be explored;
Regular translation practice, identifying the problems raised by each text.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment(30%), Formal assessment(70%)
Subject matter
1. General problems met when translating texts pertaining the Social Sciences and Humanities;
2. Translation of source language texts from the above-mentioned field;
3. Critical assessment and analysis of lexical/vocabulary choices, style, pragmatics, etc.