LMKB_a301 Liter. translation in German

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Vynikající znalost němčiny na úrovni B2 a výše.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course aims to develop the students’ skills in creating extended translations with specific functions (the aesthetic-communicative function, popularization). The study of micro-strategies and macro-strategies of translation will be led by native speakers of both the target and source languages, and it is intended to foster understanding and mastering linguistic and cultural specifics which manifest when literary texts (with literary communicative function) are translated. The methods used in the course extend the students’ translation competencies in the area of mutual transposition of Czech, German, Austrian, and Swiss, cultural specifics (cultural environment, social rites, historical allusions, intertextuality, etc.), as well as their language, literary and research competencies.
Learning outcomes
Having finished the course, students will be able to:
- use the correct methods and approaches in the individual stages of translation;
- apply adequate macro-strategies;
- recognize the stylistic attributes of various genres of text;
- create an adequate communicative translation.
Syllabus
  • The function of a literary text and its transformations.
  • Metatextuality and its functions.
  • Intertextuality – allusions, paraphrasing, citations.
  • Genre attributes and their combinations within a literary text.
  • Translating the title of a literary text.
  • Expressivity and its neutralization.
  • Interpretative capacity of translation (third code, Germanisms).
  • Literary/written language, spoken language, Czech colloquialisms, Umgangssprache, dialects.
  • Tenses, aspects, Aktionsart.
  • Modality, conjunctive, particles.
  • Article (Artikel).
  • Verba dicendi.
  • Direct speech, indirect speech, free indirect speech.
  • Collocation, connotation.
  • Humour, irony.
  • Language play, neologisms, experimental literature.
  • Authors:
  • Jan Faktor: Körpertexte.
  • Ernst Jandl: Gedichte.
  • Ludmila Kábrtová: Koho vypijou lišky.
Teaching methods
Homework. The main stess will be put on some techniques to optimize text (different wording, digression, cutting, shift of point, shift in speaking perspective).
Assessment methods
Portfolio containing translations and comments.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Kurs se uskuteční při minimálním počtu 6 účastníků.
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