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 %

Final examination

40 %

Prerequisites

None

Basic Reading List

l         Compulsory Reading

Baker, Mona. (1992). In Other Words. A Coursebook on Translation. London & NY: Routledge.

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l         Supplementary Reading

Deng, Yanchang & Liu Runqing. (1989). Language and Culture. (???????) ?????????????.

Hatim, Basil. (1997). Communication Across Cultures, Translation Theory and Contrastive Text Linguistics (?????????“????????”?2).  Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Hu, Zhuanglin, Liu, Runqing, & Li Tingfu. (1988). Linguistics: A Course Book. (???????.) ??????????.

James, Carl. (1980). Contrastive Analysis. Harlow: Longman Group UK Limited.

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Wen, Qiufang. (1995). An Introduction to English Linguistics. (?????????). ??????????.

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