TRANSLATING NON-FICTION (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Define the basic concepts of translation; Apply the concepts of translation in translating non-fiction texts; Analyze the strategies of translation used in diverse translation texts.

Topics:

1. About Translation;
2. Equivalence at word level;
3. Problem of non-equivalence;
4. equivalence above word level: collocation;
5. equivalence above word level: idioms;
6. grammatical equivalence;
7. grammatical equivalence: word order;
8. textual equivalence: thematic structure;
9. textual equivalence: information structure;
10. textual equivalence : cohesion;
11. pragmatic equivalence : coherence;
12. pragmatic equivalence : implicature;
13. review