Practical Translation (2): Specialist Translation

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• monitor and evaluate professional activity, including self-evaluation
• demonstrate high level interpersonal skills and intercultural awareness
• engage in debate around complex ideas and theories
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
• communicate complex ideas and arguments orally and in writing
• work at a professional level across at least two languages

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply theory in order to communicate effectively and to a professional standard between English and at least one other language in writing and / or orally in a variety of academic and / or work related contexts;
• undertake a substantial translation project and produce work of publishable standard;
• evidence advanced theoretical knowledge and (where appropriate) professional skills over an extended piece of work
• analyse and reflect on your own professional practice and experience and identify areas for change;

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Translating and interpreting theories and methods, including the key theoretical frameworks in the field of translation and how to apply them to produce commercially viable translations.
• the subject chosen for your dissertation / extended translation project, including principal primary source materials and relevant scholarly literature
• how translation theory is applied in a professional setting, dealing with the complexities of working and thinking globally and across cultures

During the module you will work through a series of advanced translation tasks, grouped thematically as follows:

Weeks 1-2: Translation and power

Weeks 3-4: Translating non-contemporary texts

Weeks 5-6: Translation for performance

Weeks 7-8: Translating fantasy and science fiction

Weeks 9-10: Translation of multimodal texts: cartoons and graphic novels

Weeks 11-12: Technical translation

In addition to the weekly practical sessions, there will be a workshop to prepare you for the extended translation project, plus 2x 30 mins individual or small group consultation sessions with your module tutor(s) focused on your project.

Teaching and learning methods

In addition to the weekly practical sessions, there will be a workshop to prepare you for the extended translation project, plus 2x 30 mins individual or small group consultation sessions with your module tutor(s) focused on your project.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

The textual degree of technicality as a potential factor influencing the occurrence of explicitation in scientific and technical translation.

Journal of Specialised Translation Special issue: Technical translation, medical translation, localisation.

Translating for the Theatre: The Case Against Performability.

The ‘integrity’ of the translated play-text.

‘The deadliest error’: translation, international relations and the news media.

The Study of Technical and Scientific Translation: An Examination of its Historical Development.

Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies [electronic resource] 2nd ed..

Political Discourse, Media and Translation.

Reflections on Translation.

Textbooks

Maria Tymoczko (Editor), Edwin Charles Gentzler (Editor) (2002). Translation and Power. Amherst: University Massachusetts Press.

Bassnett, Susan. (1997). Translating literature. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer,.

Geraldine Brodie (Author), Emma Cole (Author) (2017). Adapting Translation for the Stage (Routledge Advances in Theatre) (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). Abingdon: Routledge.

Norman Fairclough (2014). Language and Power. Abingdon: Routledge.

Mona Baker (2018). Translation and Conflict. London: Routledge.

Dror Abend-David (2014). Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach. London: Bloomsbury.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External