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

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0867

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

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

Disciplinary Sector:

Slavic Studies

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GUSEVA NATALIA

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

247

Prerequisites:

The achievement of the objectives of the second year of the course.

Objectives

The course aims to bring students to an intermediate-advanced level of linguistic competence. It will develop adequate skills in using the linguistic system and analytical skills supported by a deepening of morphosyntactic structures both in the oral and written language. In particular, it tends to develop the ability to understand / produce texts of different functional styles: regulatory, descriptive and narrative, as well as the initiation into the comprehension / production of the argumentative text. The translation part aims to develop the linguistic, analytical and translation tools needed to translate from Russian to Italian information texts in the field of culture, social and economic life of Russians. Each piece will be thoroughly analyzed from a content and linguistic point of view. The skills acquired in the second year of the course that regard the negotiation interpretation will be developed.
The achievement of the objectives of the second year of the course.

Contents

The course includes the completion of the morphosyntax program as well as the application of morphological-syntactic analysis to authentic and contemporary texts. The course aims a detailed study of the syntactic structures both of the simple proposition and the period and their synonymy, the improvement of some aspects of morphology and verbal and adjective syntax. The program includes written translation techniques from Russian to Italian and from Italian to Russian. Production skills written in Russian will also be developed with the necessary lexical enrichment and paying attention to the stylistic aspects of the language. Particular importance will be given to the development of the skills the linguistic mediator needs: analysis exercises, synthesis and reformulation of the speech, concentration exercises, selective listening and memorization, sight translation exercises.

Extended Syllabus

The course consists of four modules: composition in Russian language; morphosyntax; Russian language mediation II; Russian-Italian translation.
1. Composition in Russian language
- Functional styles of the Russian language: structures and lexicon;
- Formal letter, private letter: essential elements.
2. Intermediate level morphosyntax
- Passive;
- Reflexive verbs and expressions of reflexivity and reciprocity;
- Verbs with prefixes;
- Classification of propositions and syntax elements of the subordinate sentence (objective, subjective, final, causal, concessive, temporal, spatial)
- Hypothetical period;
- Negative pronouns;
- Phraseology (proverbs, idioms, idiomatic expressions).
3. Russian-Italian linguistic-cultural mediation:
- Learning of the specialized vocabulary of the commercial field;
- Elements of Russian corporate culture;
- Consolidation of dialogic interpretation techniques.
4. Translation from Russian to Italian and from Italian to Russian:
- Elements of Russian-Italian contrastive grammar: name, verb, adjective, defined vs indefinite, word order;
- Asymmetry and equivalence in translation;
- Combinatory characteristics of words in the two languages.

Recommended Bibliography

The following textbooks are adopted:
ŠIBKO N.L., Sinonimia sintaksičeskich sredstv: prostoe i složnoe predloženie, St.Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2015;
NIVINA E.A. Izučaem vozvratnye glagoly. Tambov, 2014;
AVERJANOVA G.N., Russkie glagol’nye pristavki, Moskva, Russkij jazyk kursy, 2014
KOLESOVA D.V., KHARITONOV A.A., Golden pen: a manual of writing skills development: student's book, 5th ed. St.Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2011.
PEROTTO M., KOVALJOVA N., I numerali nella lingua russa, Roma: Aracne, 2005
LASORSA C., JAMPOL'SKAJA A., La traduzione all’università russo-italiano e italiano-russo, Bulzoni Editore, 2001
KOTANE L., Russian for business. Pre-intermediate textbook (with keys). St.Petersburg: Zlatoust, 2014.
MALYSHEV G., MALYSHEVA N. About Russia and Russians. Reading and Russian civilisation for RFL students (B1). SPb: Zlatoust, 2015;
Additional materials will be provided by the teacher.
Recommended (especially for non-attending students):
PEROTTO M., KOVALJOVA N., I numerali nella lingua russa, Roma: Aracne, 2005;
CEVESE C., DOBROVOLSKAJA Ju., Sintassi Russa. Teoria ed esercizi, Milano: Hoepli, 2005 e succ.;
Dictionaries:
KOVALEV V., Dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo, Bologna: Zanichelli, 2007 (terza edizione o successiva);
DOBROVOL’SKAJA Ju., Grande dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo, Hoepli 2011.
KUZNECOV S.A. (a cura di), Bol'šoj tolkovyj slovar' russkogo jazyka, Sankt Peterburg 2000 (o successive ristampe)
Multimedia tools for translation ru-it will be indicated during the lessons.

Teaching Methods

The course is based on the use of an integrated method: communicative approach, group work, description of grammar, consolidation and translation activities. During the year, multimedia aids (computer screenings, films, audio recordings) and authentic materials (magazines and publications in Russian) will be used. The course includes a total of 325 hours, divided as follows: 78 hours of frontal teaching + 247 hours of self-work at home. To the principal course, the hours of exercising with the lecturer are added.
The course consists of the following parts: Vocabulary and morphosyntax according to the program; Understanding and production of the written text; Understanding and production of the oral text; Written translation from and into the Russian language; Language of the Business communication.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

For attending students, 4 tests (2 for the L11) are scheduled during the year:
- guided composition in Russian with bilingual dictionary;
- grammar test including IT-RU translation of simple and complex sentences without dictionary to verify the knowledge of the morphosyntax of the course;
- RU-IT translation of an informative text of approx. 800 characters including spaces, with the possibility of using the bilingual dictionary (only L12);
- oral exam of Russian-Italian linguistic mediation (only L12).
Passing the tests allows direct admission to the oral exam. Written tests not passed during the year may be completed during the final written exam. The mediation test is held during the oral exam.
The oral exam consists of:
- reading and sight translation of passages in Russian language with logical analysis of the complex period;
- explanation in Italian of a topic of morphosyntax (also for the native Russian students);
- conversation on topics related to the readings proposed during the year (narrative and historical-cutural texts) and on a text prepared independently;
- interpretation of a bilingual commercial dialogue (only L12);
- conversation on the arguments introduced by the CEL during the exercises.
For non-attending students and for students of the supplementary year, there will be a written and an oral final exam of the same type.
The written exam / test is valid for three sessions. The student can choose to take the oral exam in the same session of the written exam or in one of the following two.

Contacts/More Information

Attendance is strongly recommended.
NATIVE RUSSIAN students and WORKERS students are required to contact the professors at the beginning of the course. Students who registered on supplementary year must refer to this program.
The teacher will be available for student reception once a week during the entire teaching period.
Students of Russian Language III of L11, who borrow the course from this teaching, must assimilate the contents of the program carried out in the first 36 hours of lectures + 114 of self-work at home, which correspond to 6 credits: they are Modules of Composition in Russian and Morphosyntax at intermediate level (see Extended Program).
The language exercises carried out by the CEL are an integral part of the course. Attendance of CEL exercises is highly recommended to achieve the levels of linguistic competence provided for by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and to pass the final language exam Lingua Russa III and Lingua, Mediazione e Traduzione RU-IT e IT-RU.
Before accessing the exam with the teacher, students will take the test according to the procedures established by the CLA. During the examination, the teacher will take into account the result achieved in formulating the final evaluation.
All information regarding the hours of the exercises, the methods of verification of CELs are available on the University Language Center website.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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