2009/2010

2009/2010

DM270

L-LIN/12 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

IL LINGUAGGIO: VARIAZIONE DIACRONICA E SINCRONICA, ACQUISIZIONE, ASPETTI COMPUTAZIONALI

1°

1st semester (01/10/2009 - 13/01/2010)

6

30 lesson hours

English

ORAL TEST

PAVESI MARIA GABRIELLA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Students must have taken English language a (c.p.)

The course aims to provide learners with an advanced knowledge of specific aspects of the English language. The course is taught from an applied and contrastive perspective and focuses on translation and the cross-linguistic comparison between English and Italian.
The competence level expected is C2 of the CEFR for reading, writing and listening, and C1 for speaking.

Contrasting English and Italian in film translation

This course deals with a few selected issues related to the contrast between English and Italian. It focuses students’ attention on spoken language and the language of screen dialogue investigated from the viewpoint of film translation and the transfer processes from one language into another in multimodal contexts. Students will consider personal and demonstrative pronouns, address modes (tu and lei pronouns and vocatives) and marked word orders (i.e., cleft sentences and dislocations). These features will be examined contrastively as they occur in a corpus of contemporary “conversational” films dubbed from English into Italian. The course includes workshops on writing and subtitling taught by a Cel (native English expert).

Lectures, seminars and workshops

Attending students:
Pavesi, M., 2005. La traduzione filmica. Aspetti del parlato doppiato dall’inglese all’italiano. Roma, Carocci. (4 chapters)
Freddi, M., Pavesi, M. (eds.) 2009. Analysing audiovisual dialogue. Linguistic and translational insights. Bologna, Clueb. (4 pchapters)
Chiaro, D., Heiss, C., Bucaria, C. (eds) 2008. Between text and image. Updating research in screen translation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins. (1 chapter)
J. Díaz-Cintas (eds.) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation. Bristol/Buffalo/Toronto, Multilingual Matters (1 chapter).
Pavesi M. 2008 “Tra contrastività e strategie traduttive: i dimostrativi nel dialogo filmico”.In A. Bertacca, M. Bertuccelli Papi, S. Bruti (a cura di), Threads in the complex fabric of language. Linguistic and literary studies in honour of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. Pisa, Felici Editore.

Non attending students.
Granger, S., Lerot, J., Petch-Tyson, S. (eds.), 2003. Corpus-based approaches to Contrastive linguistics and Translation studies. Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi. (primi 2 capitoli)
Pavesi, M., 2005. La traduzione filmica. Aspetti del parlato doppiato dall’inglese all’italiano. Roma, Carocci. (4 chapters)
Freddi, M., Pavesi, M. (eds.) 2009. Analysing audiovisual dialogue. Linguistic and translational insights. Bologna, Clueb. (4 chapters)
Chiaro, D., Heiss, C., Bucaria, C. (eds). Between text and image. Updating research in screen translation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins. (2 chapters)
J. Díaz-Cintas (eds.) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation. Bristol/Buffalo/Toronto, Multilingual Matters (1 chapter).
Toury, G., 1995. Descriptive translation studies and beyond. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Part two, Ch.2
Pavesi M. 2008 “Tra contrastività e strategie traduttive: i dimostrativi nel dialogo filmico”.In A. Bertacca, M. Bertuccelli Papi, S. Bruti (a cura di), Threads in the complex fabric of language. Linguistic and literary studies in honour of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. Pisa, Felici Editore.

A written analysis of an aspect of audiovisual translation and an oral discussion.