Course: Introduction to Professional Translation

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Course title Introduction to Professional Translation
Course code KGER/KN18
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrabcová Tereza, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to the theory of professional translation. 2. Specifics of professional and popular educational texts - German original 3. Specifics of professional and popular educational texts - Czech original 4. Translation strategies, procedures and methods. Practical training; analysis of translated texts I. 5. Translation strategies, procedures and methods. Practical training; analysis of translated texts II 6. Terminological equivalence and search possibilities. Working with glossaries, printed and electronic dictionaries. Practical training; analysis of translated texts III. 7. Terminological equivalence and search possibilities. Working with glossaries, printed and electronic dictionaries. Practical training; analysis of translated texts IV. 8. Typography. Practical training; analysis of translated texts V. 9. Revision. Analysis of translated texts VI.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the seminar is to deepen the knowledge of the basic translations and to familiarize students with the specific features of translation of technical texts (mainly technical, economic and legal) and popular texts, both from German into Czech and from Czech into German. In the seminar will be analysed and discussed the key translation procedures, the grammatical and stylistic principles of the translation work, the specific features of the construction of individual professional and popular educational texts and the issue of terminological equivalence.
Students are familiar with the main techniques of translation as well as with specific features of professional texts and of popular educational texts. They are ready to use their knowledge when translating authentic texts.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit requirements: - active participation in seminars, - preparation of partial written assignments (i.e. translations).
Recommended literature
  • Hrabcová, T. Úvod do odborného překladu. Ústí nad Labem, 2021.
  • Schubert, K. Übersetzen und Dolmetschen: Modelle, Methoden, Technologien. Tübingen, 2003.
  • Stolze, R. Fachübersetzen - ein Lehrbuch für Theorie und Praxis. Berlin, 2009.
  • Svoboda, T. Kapitoly z překladatelské praxe. Odborný překlad mezi němčinou a češtinou. Praha, 2012.
  • Šabršula, J. Teorie a praxe překladu. Ostrava, 2007.


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