NJPII_2246 Analysis of the Discours

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Anna Marie Halasová, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:10–14:55 G24
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of the one-semester course Text and Discourse Analysis is to introduce students to the discipline, both by presenting and applying its conceptual apparatus and through analyzing specific texts. Due to the focus of the Master’s Degree in Translation studies program within which the course is offered, all work with text will be conceived as preparatory to treating texts within the translatorial profession. The keywords of the course will be ‘translation’, ‘history of translation’, ‘theories of translation’, ‘translatability’, ‘equivalence’ ‘text’ and ‘communicative purpose of the text’ and ‘comparison of the German and Czech grammar’; texts will be analyzed in a manner allowing for basing the potential subsequent process of translation on functional approaches to translation (modern theory of skopos). At the onset of the course, students will receive a portfolio of texts in Czech and German which they will get acquainted with in the beginning of the course and which will be referred to in different contexts throughout the course. The course will combine a lecture and a seminar, both forms being used freely within the 90-minute teaching blocks. Another emphasis of the course will be its contrastive orientation: texts sharing some con/textual parameters and differing in others will be compared and differences in genre conventions characterizing different cultures will be stressed in preparation for the process of translation. Students will be expected to prepare for the lessons throughout the semester; the preparation will consist in analyzing set texts, modifying texts based on set parameters, and searching for texts meeting set parameters. Credits will be granted upon passing a both theoretically and practically oriented written exam.
Syllabus
  • (1) Course objectives, pathways to achieving them. Course organization instructions: teaching block structuring, requirements placed on students, course completion requirements.
  • (2) Translation-concept
  • (3) History of the translation
  • (4) Important theories of the trnslation
  • (5) The problem of the translatability
  • (6) Equivalence
  • (7) Textlinguistics
  • (8) Comparison of the German and Czech grammar’
Literature
  • Literatur und Übersetzung : Bohemistische Studien. Edited by Raija Hauck - Zbyněk Fišer. Greifswald: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 2008, 164 s. ISBN 9783860063019. info
  • STOLZE, Radegundis. Übersetzungstheorien : eine Einführung. 4. Aufl. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005, 269 s. ISBN 382336197X. info
  • FIX, Ulla, Hannelore POETHE and Gabriele YOS. Textlinguistik und Stilistik für Einsteiger : ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Edited by Ruth Geier. 3., durchgesehene Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003, 236 s. ISBN 3631518293. info
  • NORD, Christiane. Translating as a Purposeful Activity: Fuctionalist Approaches Explained. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 1997, 154 pp. ISBN 1900650029. info
  • WILSS, Wolfram. Kognition und Übersetzen : zu Theorie und Praxis der menschlichen und der maschinellen Übersetzung. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1988, x, 306. ISBN 3484220414. info
Teaching methods
The Students translates the text both into German and Czech.
Assessment methods
One lecture and one seminar per week, integrated in a single 90-minute block. (Presentation of theoretical concepts and reference to specific texts and work with them alternate.) Compulsory attendance; regular class preparation is essential (see the annotation). Credits will be granted upon passing a witten practically oriented exam.
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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