Institute for Translation and Interpreting, Heidelberg University

Winter Semester 2020-2021

0945BUT02202 Technical foundations of professional translation

• BA practical, 1st semester Medientechnische Grundlagen der Fachübersetzung, BA, 1st Sem, 2 Credit Points, Practice class, Mon. 12:15 to 13:45;
• LSF
• Course description

Virtual Seminar Room

We start this course on-line. Please join our Seminar Room:
https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/bab-eeq-ax3
on Monday, 12:15. If any problems with computer audio, you can also dial in via the phone: +49 6221 431 0 410, and then enter Phone PIN: 4341-9332-8165

Submission of course assessment

If you take the course for credit, please submit your case study / report / essay via Moodle (the submission area is at the top of the course page) Please submit you work by 22.03.2021. (If you need an extension, please let me know).

Assessment guidance and marking criteria: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/485ab21e1f254fec8aed/

Course materials

Week01: 02 Nov – 08 Nov 2020: Course Introduction

• Self-enrolment code on Uni-Heidelberg Moodle: d12b1-0945BUT02202
• Introduction: Please fill in this google form: https://forms.gle/nAc63bzcACkHxNZq8
• Channel on Slack (you will receive invitation via email): 0945but02202-medientechnische-grundlagen-i
• Additional material - Overview of corpus tools: pdf pptx
• Lecture slides w01 - Introduction: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/6aca4c4cb266454bbd17/

Week02: 09 Nov – 15 Nov 2020:

• Lecture slides w02 - Corpus, semantic prosodies https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/3fca734fa52249cf8f29/
• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/lHn1_KwG4nc

Week03: 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2020:

• Please prepare your short presentations about semantic prosodies.
• Literature: Sinclair, J. (2016). Reading concordances. Longman
• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/rx9ggZgtccc

Week04: 23 Nov – 29 Nov 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/RDA5XgnFhGU

Week05: 30 Nov – 06 Dec 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/D16GPoZ17Oo

Week06: 07 Dec – 13 Dec 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/vppkww8gU5Q

Week07: 14 Dec – 20 Dec 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/QSijkXWIlW4

Christmas break: 21 Dec – 10 Jan (3 weeks, no classes)

Week08: 11 Jan – 17 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/p8pE4QtitI4

Week09: 18 Jan – 24 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/GEt6XvFVtVA
• Link to the project briefing: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/a148536fca2546a28745/

Week10: 25 Jan – 31 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: presentation: check the link on Slack channel

Week11: 01 Feb – 07 Feb 2021:

• Video recording of the class: presentation https://youtu.be/DYgRCrnA2Xk

Week12: 08 Feb – 14 Feb 2021:

• Video recording of the class https://youtu.be/JPU7Hu1C7ZI

Week13: 15 Feb – 21 Feb 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/OfQdUR52cVA

Week14: 22 Feb – 28 Feb 2021: