The students will gain advanced skills in translation theory applied to cross-cultural dimensions of German-speaking countries that provide a foundation for advanced translation skills from German into Italian. By translating a range of different texts, they will refine their ability to analyze and create texts of significant complexity and to reflect on their linguistic and cultural implications.
teacher profile teaching materials
Antoine Berman, La traduzione e la lettera o l’albergo nella lontananza, Quodlibet 2003.
Programme
The course, dedicated to contemporary theoretical approaches to translation, focuses primarily on a comparison between two antithetical positions: the functionalist one, which goes from the German Skopostheorie to cognitivist developments, and the "literal" one represented by Berman. Translations of various textual genres will also be analysed in order to verify and deepen the theoretical positions of the texts and the various translator's tools will be dealt with.Core Documentation
Hans G. Hönig, Konstruktives Übersetzen, 3. Aufl., Stauffenburg 2010.Antoine Berman, La traduzione e la lettera o l’albergo nella lontananza, Quodlibet 2003.
Type of delivery of the course
The course will take place in frontal didactic mode, with the participation of students in exercises.Attendance
Attendance is not mandatoryType of evaluation
A final written test of literary translation from German to Italian, in addition to the oral exam about gtranlation theory with the teacher