ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION I

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0700

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SASSO Eleonora

PAPILE DORIANA

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

150

Objectives

The aim of the course, which helps to reach the learning objectives of
the postgraduate degree course in “Languages for Business and
International Cooperation”, is to provide students with a thorough
grounding in the basics of subtitling, conference interpreting and
business English. The topics covered in the course provide a basis for
translation and interpreting jobs in the private or public sectors, as well
as in the Government Ministeries.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course students will be expected to have:
- acquired the ability to describe and apply such subtitling strategies as
condensation, segmentation and translation of culture-bound words;
- acquired the skills to use the basic principles of note-taking;
- acquired the ability to translate the main business documents from
English into Italian and from Italian into English.
Making judgements
At the end of the course students will be expected to have:
- acquired the ability to connect theoretical and practical issues in
translation and interpreting studies;
- acquired the ability to explain subtitling and note-taking strategies;
- acquired the ability to make judgements on linguistic varieties of
Business English
Communication skills
At the end of the course students will be able to:
- discuss different inter- and intralinguistic subtiling strategies ;
-provide technincal and practical information about interpreting and
subtitling both to specialists and non-specialists;
- use business jargon and style.

Contents

The course aims at providing students with such linguistic and mediating
tools as subtitling and conference interpreting, two of the most eligible
multimodal practices fostering international cooperation. As fields of
professional training and research in intercultural and cross-cultural
communication, audiovisual modalities and conference interpreting are
able to develop the students’ linguistic competence and capacity in today’s globalized world. The course will also be devoted to teach such a
topic as “Business English, corpora and translation” by introducing the
typical sample texts and contexts of Business English which will be
analysed from a corpus-based perspective. With the aid of monolingual
and bilingual specialised comparable corpora students will be able to
translate the main business correspondence from English into Italian and
from Italian into English.

Extended Syllabus

The course aims at providing students with such linguistic and mediating
tools as subtitling and conference interpreting through which it is possible
to foster international cooperation. As fields of professional practice and
research in intercultural and cross-cultural communication, subtitling and
conference interpreting are able to develop the students’ linguistic
competence and capacity in today’s globalized world.
As a particular form of audiovisual modality, subtitling appears to be an
intermodal kind of language rendering intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic
cultural elements from one culture into another. In particular, subtitling
may be considered a specific type of intra- and interlingual discourse
presenting a series of lexical, syntactical and typographical
characteristics which will be closely investigated. The linguistic aspects of
subtitling as well as the so-called text reduction shifts will also be treated
in order to demonstrate how the fusions of cultures produce hybrid
cultural artefacts, combining source and target texts.
Likewise, conference interpreting, whose aim is to help individuals and
communities to acquire a fuller knowledge and a deeper understanding of
one another, will be introduced as a form of linguistic and cultural
mediation in such a multilingual market as the European Union. The
traditional mode of interpreting i.e. consecutive interpreting will be
introduced along with Rozan’s seven basic principles of note-taking in
order to develop the students’ mediating skills.
The course will also be devoted to teach such a topic as “Business
English, corpora and translation” by exposing students to the typical
sample texts and contexts of Business English used as a Lingua Franca in
many areas of the world. After practicing such business writing skills as
rephrasing, gap filling and text writing, students will be able to edit
business writing in terms of sentence linking, structure and length. With
the aid of monolingual and bilingual specialised comparable corpora
students will be able to translate the main business documents
correspondence from English into Italian and from Italian into English.

Recommended Bibliography

Language module (attending students):
- Jorge Díaz-Cintas e Aline Remael, Audiovisual Translation, Subtitling
(Translation Practices Explained), London and New York, Routledge, 2014
(Capitoli 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; written and oral exams);
- Sasso, Eleonora, “‘Crime is disease’: Contamination of Media in BBC
Sherlock”, Testo e senso, 24 (2022), ISSN: 2036-2293 (oral exam);
- Sasso, Eleonora, “Canadian Subtitling, Conceptual Metaphors and
Native Diversity” in Trim Richard, and Dorota Śliwa, eds., Metaphor and
Translation, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 185-
197 (oral exam);
- Rozan, J. F., Note Taking in Consecutive Interpreting, trans. Andrew
Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004 (written and oral exam).
- Catherine Nickerson and Brigitte Planken, eds., Introducing Business
English, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2016 (Part I – capitoli 1 , 2, Parte
III – capitoli 6, 7, Part IV – capitolo 9; oral exam);
- Taylor, Shirley, Model Business Letters, Emails, and Other Business
Documents, Edinburgh Gate, Pearson, 2012 (Part I - ch. 2, Part II - chs. 3-
5, Part III - ch. 3, Part IV - chs. 9-15, Part VI - chs. 21, 23, 25, 27; written
translation and oral exam);
Language Module (non-attending students):
- Luis Pérez-Gonzalez, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and
Issues, New York, Routledge, 2014 (Part I – capitolo 1; Part II– capitolo
4; oral exam);
- Sasso, Eleonora, “Ideas Worth Subtitling: Ted Talks and the Cognitive
Map of Europe”, in Euromosaic: A Still Open Challenge, ed. Flavia
Cavaliere, Roma, Edicampus Edizioni, 2017, pp. 143-158. ISBN
9788897591795 (oral exam);
- Sasso, Eleonora, “‘Crime is disease’: Contamination of Media in BBC
Sherlock”, Testo e senso, 24 (2022), ISSN: 2036-2293 (oral exam);
- Sasso, Eleonora, “Canadian Subtitling, Conceptual Metaphors and
Native Diversity” in Trim Richard, and Dorota Śliwa, eds., Metaphor and
Translation, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 185-
197 (oral exam);
- Jorge Díaz-Cintas e Aline Remael, Audiovisual Translation, Subtitling
(Translation Practices Explained), London and New York, Routledge, 2014
(Capitoli 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; language written exam and oral exam);
- Rozan, J. F., Note Taking in Consecutive Interpreting, trans. Andrew
Gillies, Krakow, Tertium, 2004 (language written exam and oral exam).
- Catherine Nickerson and Brigitte Planken, eds., Introducing Business
English, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2016 (Part I – capitoli 1 , 2; Part
III – capitolo 6, 7; Part IV – capitolo 9; oral exam);
- Taylor, Shirley, Model Business Letters, Emails, and Other Business
Documents, Edinburgh Gate, Pearson, 2012 (Part I - ch. 2, Part II - chs. 3-
5, Part III - ch. 3, Part IV - chs. 9-15, Part VI - chs. 21, 23, 25, 27; written
and oral exams);
Translation module – written exam (attending students):
- Maeve Olohan, “Commercial Translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van
Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia,
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 41-44 (written exam).
Taylor, John, Elisabetta Zazzeroni, a cura di, Mailing. An introduction to
internet business writing. La posta elettronica sul lavoro, Fano, Aras
Edizioni, 2014 (written exam);
Translation Module – written exam (non-attending students):
- Maeve Olohan, “Commercial Translation”, in Yves Gambier and Luc van
Doorslaer, Handbook of Translation Studies, Amsterdam / Philadelphia,
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 41-44 (written exam).
Taylor, John, Elisabetta Zazzeroni, a cura di, Mailing. An introduction to internet business writing. La posta elettronica sul lavoro, Fano, Aras
Edizioni, 2014 (written exam).

Teaching Methods

It is a 60-hour course of in-class instructor-led lectures arranged in 2-hour
lessons held twice weekly. The course is devoted to teach subtitling,
note-taking, Business English and translation of business letters from
English into Italian and from Italian into English. Lessons, and seminars
will be followed by activities and exercises aimed at developing
subtitling, note-taking and translating skills.
Course attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended and the
written exam will be the same for both attending and non-attending
students.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The course grade will be determined by aggregating the grade points
obtained by the students in both the written and oral exams.
The language written exam is comprised of multiple- choice
questions/exercises , a commentary of subtitling strategies and business
English strategies;
The translation written exam is comprised of two translations of business
letters from English into Italian and from Italian into English.
Multiple- choice questions/exercises will deal with the course topics
(subtitling, and note-taking) in order to get students reflect on the tasks
of the subtitler and the interpreter in private and public sectors.
By aggregating the three grades points obtained in the written exam
(language part and 2 translations) with the oral exam’s grade point, the
overall grade point average for the course can be determined.
Access to the oral exam is only possible once a student has passed all the
individual components of the written exam (18/30). The student who has
not passed one or more of the components of the written exam, will only
repeat the failed part.
The oral exam, conducted in English, will test the knowledge and
comprehension of audiovisual translation, note-taking in conference
interpreting and business English. Note-taking skills will also be tested by
listening twice to a 20-30-second audio track on business matters. Students will interpret the speech with the help of notes.
In order to pass the exam, students must use specialised terminology and
express him/herself in a coherent and clear way demonstrating logic skills
that connect different aspects of subtitling, interpreting and business
English.

Contacts/More Information

Further didactic material will be available both online and at the
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