Knowledge of main theoretical and methodological issues concerning translation as linguistic and cultural mediation. Introduction to the translation of short texts from different text types.
teacher profile teaching materials
The course focuses on specific phenomena of the German language which are interesting from a contrastive point of view and which causes often interferences and errors in the second language and mediation. In addition the students will practice different kind of exercises of mediation (written and oral).
Programme
Contrastive linguistics and mediationThe course focuses on specific phenomena of the German language which are interesting from a contrastive point of view and which causes often interferences and errors in the second language and mediation. In addition the students will practice different kind of exercises of mediation (written and oral).
Core Documentation
Nied Curcio, Martina (2008): Ausgewählte Phänomene zur Kontrastiven Linguistik Italienisch-Deutsch. Milano: Franco Angeli.