| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Theory: Lectures with Power Point presentations. Practice: Translation in class and at home with group analysis and assessment in class |
| Met. Avaluació |
| All translations will have to be handed to the lecturer in the signalled dates. Final examination, consisting in a theoretical and a practical part. |
| Bibliografia |
| Alcaraz Varó, E. 2000. El Inglés Profesional y Académico. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. Brinton, E., Cruz, E, Ortiz Ortiz, R & White, C. (1996) [1981] Translation strategies. Estrategias para la traducción. Hemel Hempstead: Phoenix ELT. Halliday, M.A.K. & J.R. Martin. 1993. "The discursive technology of science" in WRITING SCIENCE,London: Arnold. Suau Jiménez, F. 1998. La Traducción Empresarial. Lynx: Universitat de València. Suau Jiménez, F. 2001. "El género y el registro en la traducción del discurso profesional: un enfoque funcional aplicable a cualquier lengua de especialidad". URL: www.ub.es/filhis/culturele/tinasuau.html |
| Continguts |
| -Theory: Unit 1: The discourse of scientific and technical English. Its evolution in Europe since the birth of modern science. Unit 2: Genre and register: what can they bring to classify, analyse and translate scientific and technical texts. Practice: A variety of 7 differents texts in scientific and technical English will be translated in group during the class sessions. Some parallel texts (English/Spanish) will be analysed from a translation viewpoint. |
| Objetius |
| To train students in the translation of scientific and technical texts, through a variety of disciplines, mainly with English as a source language and Spanish and/or Catalan as a target language. Both a theoretical and a practical approach to technolects in English and in Spanish through genre and register frameworks will be first provided. |
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