LANGUAGE, MEDIATION AND TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN INTO SPANISH AND FROM SPANISH INTO ITALIAN

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LO869

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Spanish Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PICCIONI Sara

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

247

Prerequisites:

B1 of CEFR for Spanish (verified by successful completion of the 2nd year class in Spanish Language and Translation, required to access this class)

Objectives

- Acquiring the notions of genre and Language for Special Purposes
- Becoming a proficient communicator in the specialised contexts relevant for the aims of the Course (tourism, academic and medical communication)
- Acquiring advanced competences in Spanish syntax and morphology
- Consolidating and furthering the four language skills in Spanish (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
- Becoming aware of the challenges posed by translation at the linguistic, textual, cultural and stylistic level
- Acquiring basic documentation skills for medical translation
- Acquiring fundamental theoretical notions related to linguistic and cultural mediation.
- Consolidating mediation skills between Spanish and Italian in medical settings.

Contents

The class is split into 3 parts:

- Spanish Language/Linguistics (4 credits): Introduction to Spanish for Specific Purposes; Spanish for Tourism; Academic Spanish
- Translation (3 credits): Translation from and into Spanish of patient information leaflets
- Mediation (6 credits, taught by Claudia Colantonio): theory of linguistic and cultural mediation; practical sessions of mediation in a medical setting.

Extended Syllabus

Language: Spanish for Special Purposes
The module focuses on the analysis of specialized languages in Spanish. Special emphasis is placed on the notion of genre and on the linguistic and cultural makeup of academic and tourism texts. Text analysis sessions will be complemented by a review of Spanish morphology and syntax, as well as practical sessions aimed at furthering students' reading/listening and writing/speaking skills.
Main topics covered include:
1. Specialized languages: definitions and analytical notions
2. Genre in specialized communication
3. Introduction to academic Spanish
4. Academic Spanish: Research articles
5. Academic Spanish: Citation practices
6. Academic Spanish: Linguistic devices for impersonalization
7. Academic Spanish: Hedging in academic writing
8. Academic Spanish: Cohesion: discourse markers.
9. Introduction to tourism communication and persuasive (linguistic) strategies
10. Spanish for tourism: Tourist brochure

Translation:
The module provides an introduction to the translation of pragmatic texts, with a special focus on patient information leaflets. Special attention will be given to the use of documentation tools and techniques for translation.

Mediation:
This module provides an introduction to the theory and practice of oral mediation between Spanish and Italian. The focus will be on the role of the linguistic mediator in different cultural and social settings, analyzing:
1) Theoretical and methodological aspects, including memorization techniques, formal language, medical language, the interpreter/mediator’s code of ethics;
2) Practical aspects: practical sessions will rely on improvisation and role playing (formal and informal interviews), while also tackling linguistic issues (at the phonetic, syntactic, and lexical level).
The skills needed to act as a mediator will be progressively identified and practiced, with a special focus on the medical and healthcare sectors.

Recommended Bibliography

Class material (needed for written and oral exam preparation) will be made available online by the instructors.

Recommended further readings:

General introduction to specialised languages and text analysis:
Marimón Llorca, C. (2008). Análisis de textos en español. Alicante: Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante.
Calvi, M. V., Bordonaba, C., Mapelli, G., Santos, J. (2009/2011). Las lenguas de especialidad en español. Roma: Carocci

Academic Spanish:
Acín Villa, E. (2016). “La atenuación en las “Conclusiones” de las tesis de doctorado”. Textos en Proceso 2(1), pp. 1-24. (http://oa.edice.org/index.php/tep/article/view/34)
Beke, R. (2005). “El metadiscurso interpersonal en artículos de investigación”. Signos 38(57), pp. 7–18. (http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342005000...)
García Negroni, M. M. (2008). “Subjetividad y discurso científico-académico. Acerca de algunas manifestaciones de la subjetividad en el artículo de investigación en español”. Signos 41(66), pp. 5-31. (http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342008000...)
Kulikova, L., Burmákina, N. (2016). “La construcción de la autoridad en el género del artículo científico”. Pragmalinguistica 24, pp. 122-132. (http://revistas.uca.es/index.php/pragma/article/view/2318)
Regueiro Rodríguez, M. L., Sáez Rivera, D. M. (2015). El español académico. Madrid: Arco/Libros.

Spanish for tourism:
Bugnot, M.-A. (2006). “Función apelativa y recursos hiperbólicos en la traducción de los folletos turísticos”. Çédille 2, pp. 21-38. (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2215120)
Calvi, M. V. (2010). “Géneros discursivos en el lenguaje del turismo”. Ibérica 19, pp. 9-32 (www.aelfe.org/documents/01_19_Calvi.pdf)
Calvi, M. V. (2009/2011). “El lenguaje del turismo”. En Calvi, M. V., Bordonaba, C., Mapelli, G., Santos, J. Las lenguas de especialidad en español. Roma: Carocci, pp. 199-224.

Translation:
Hurtado Albir, A. (2001). Traducción y traductología. Madrid: Cátedra.
Moya, V. (2004). La selva de la traducción. Teorías traductológicas contemporáneas. Madrid: Cátedra.

Dictionaries:
CLAVE. Diccionario de uso del español. Madrid: Ediciones SM. (disponible en: http://clave.smdiccionarios.com/app.php)
De Mauro, Il dizionario della lingua italiana (DM). Torino: Paravia. (disponible en: http://dizionario.internazionale.it/)

Mediation:
Cassany, D. (1996). “La mediación lingüística: ¿una nueva profesión?” Terminómetro, 2: 62-63.
Russo, M., Mack, G. (eds.) (2005). Interpretazione di trattativa: la mediazione linguistico-culturale nel contesto formativo e professionale. Milano: Hoepli. (cap. 1, 4, 9, 14 e 15).
Soler-Espiauba, D. (1990). Lo no verbal como un componente más de la lengua. Équivalences, 19(1-2): 91-110.

Teaching Methods

- Lectures
- Seminars
- Practical sessions and other online and offline learning/teaching support activities organised by the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Language Module (evaluation of this module is expressed with a mark out of 30, resulting from the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in the written and oral tests): Assessment for this module consists of a written exam and an oral test.
The written exam comprises the following exercises on Spanish for Special Purposes:
- textual and linguistic analysis of (parts of a) research article with special focus on citation practices, linguistic strategies for impersonalization and hedging, passive voice, discourse markers;
- writing and analyzing a brief composition describing the contents of a table using linguistic devices typical of academic writing;
- writing and analyzing a tourist brochure focusing on persuasive strategies.
The oral test is a brief conversation on general topics in Spanish.

Translation module (written exam, evaluation of this module is expressed with a mark out of 30, resulting from the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in each of the translations): Brief Spanish into Italian and Italian into Spanish translations (approx. 200 words each) of patient information leaflets.

Mediation module (evaluation of this module is expressed with a mark out of 30, resulting from the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in each of the tests):
- Listening test on medical texts with reformulation exercises in both directions (Spanish into Italian and Italian into Spanish)
- Oral test: sight translation of medical texts and discussion of the theoretical contents of the module

The final mark is the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in each module (Language + Translation + Mediation /3)

Contacts/More Information

The class is complemented by practical sessions and other online and offline learning/teaching support activities organised by the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo throughout the academic year

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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