Course Code and

LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR TRANSLATION

Department of English, University of Macau

1^st Semester 2013/2014

Course Code	ENGB280
Course Title	LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR TRANSLATION
Course Description (including aims and objectives)	This introductory course is designed primarily for students who take translation as a major or minor. Special problems posed by linguistic/cultural differences to translators will be approached from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Cases involving English, Chinese, and other languages will be examined to demonstrate the implications carried by and the insights provided by contrastive analysis for the practice and study of translation. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to appreciate major differences between Chinese and English at various linguistic levels and to use the principles and methods of contrastive analysis to help with problem solving in real-life translation contexts.
	Week 1-2	Orientation: Introduction to the course; Principles and methods of comparing and contrasting languages
	Week 3, 4	Contrastive analysis of the phonetic and phonological structures of English and Chinese
	Weeks 5, 6, 7 & 8	Contrastive analysis of the lexical and semantic structures of English and Chinese
	Weeks 9, 10, & 11	Contrastive analysis of the morphological and syntactic structures of English and Chinese
	Weeks 12, 13, & 14	Contrastive analysis of the textual structures of English and Chinese
	Week 15 & 16	Contrastive analysis of the pragmatic norms of English and Chinese (Optional)
	Last week	Student presentations of course projects; windup
Assessment	Coursework (class participation, quizzes and practices, course project and presentation)	60 %
Assessment	Final examination	40 %
Prerequisites	None
Basic Reading List	l Compulsory Reading Baker, Mona. (1992). In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation. London & NY: Routledge. 许余龙. (1992).《对比语言学概论》. 上海：上海外语教育出版社. l Supplementary Reading Deng, Yanchang & Liu Runqing. (1989). Language and Culture. (《语言与文化》) 北京：外语教学与研究出版社. Hatim, Basil. (1997). Communication Across Cultures, Translation Theory and Contrastive Text Linguistics (上海外语教育出版社“国外翻译研究丛书”之2). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. Hu, Zhuanglin, Liu, Runqing, & Li Tingfu. (1988). Linguistics: A Course Book. (《语言学教程》.) 北京：北京大学出版社. James, Carl. (1980). Contrastive Analysis. Harlow: Longman Group UK Limited. 潘文国. (1997).《汉英语对比纲要》. 北京：北京语言文化大学出版社. 邵志宏. (1997).《英汉语研究与对比》. 上海：华东理工大学出版社. Wen, Qiufang. (1995). An Introduction to English Linguistics. (《英语语言学导论》). 南京：江苏教育出版社.

Lecturer Information

Name:	KE Ping
Office location:	P 212
Office Tel. no:	8212
Email:	keping00@yahoo.com
Course resources:	http://yunpan.cn/QGCqK9uqrRqye (Pw: 0dea)
Consultation hours:	Tuesday & Friday, 16:00-17:30

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