Institute for Translation and Interpreting, Heidelberg University

Winter Semester 2020-2021

0945BUE36202 Advanced topics in translation studies - Translation quality, critical evaluation and justification of translation decisions

• BA main seminar, 5th semester Übersetzungswissenschaft, BA, 5th Sem, 5 Credit Points, Main seminar, Tue. 10:15 to 11:45;
• 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 Tuesday, 10:15 am. 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 23.03.2021. (If you need an extension, please let me know).

Marking criteria and guidance on essays https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/84a4d5f82bf14578b5f0/

PowerPoints of presentations

Lisa Weygold: Chapter 5 from Saldanha and O’Brien’s Research Methodologies in Translation Studies (via Moodle). This powerpoint presentation includes more in-depth information about the topic and some important techniques and aspects

Course materials

Week01: 02 Nov – 08 Nov 2020: Course Introduction

• Self-enrolment code on Uni-Heidelberg Moodle: d21b5-0945BUE36202
• Introduction: Please fill in this google form: https://forms.gle/VN3gjua4b4QpZ3Ak6
• Channel on Slack (you will receive invitation via email): 0945bue36202-übersetzungswissenschaft
• Lecture slides w01 - Introduction: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/c13f9c18c0834068a3f0/

Week02: 09 Nov – 15 Nov 2020:

• Lecture slides w02 - Overview: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/5cf598cf9cf848a49833/
• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/prxWpuib2Lw

Week03: 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2020:

• Literature (electronic versions are on Moodle under this folder link ): House, J. (2015) Translation quality assessment past and present. Abingdon: Routledge: 54-70 (chapters 5 and 6)
  Nord, C. (1997). ‘A functional typology of translations’. In A. Trosborg (ed.) Text typology and translation. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins: 43-66
  Sager, J. (1997). ‘Text types and translation’. In A. Trosborg (ed.) Text typology and translation. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins: 25-41
  Waller, R. (1999) ‘Making connections: typography layout and language’. In Proceedings of the 1999 Autumn Symposium, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
• Text for analysis https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/a23da7f9e88a481eb23a/
• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/x5fMR1USPoA
• Lecture slides w03: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/7d403a4c50d44bab94ba/

Week04: 23 Nov – 29 Nov 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/wyCVLrMe8EU
• Task:

1. Please try to find culturally or linguistically marked concepts which may require overt translation, e.g.:
   • UK cultural concepts: “Right Honourable Friend’; “Scottish nationalism”
   • or linguistic expressions which cannot be translated literary, e.g.: “loom large; symptomatic; cause; happen” (maybe you could find some culture-specific expressions in other languages and cultures, and check if they could be translated into English
2. Explore parallel and monolingual corpora in Sketchengine.eu, e.g., Europarl, Opus, or BNC (check concordances, word sketches, word sketch differences for the expression you have selected), trying to answer the following questions: — Which translation strategies have been used, if a direct translation is not possible? — Is there evidence of semantic prosodies of these words?

Please present your findings as a short (PPT/PDF/Open Office) presentation, up to 5 slides. You can upload your slides onto our Slack channel or send them to me via email before our class.

Week05: 30 Nov – 06 Dec 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/1Wmcp8wt1Kc

Week06: 07 Dec – 13 Dec 2020:

• Link to recommended video lectures: https://www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/EU-Ratspraesidentschaft/translatingEuropeVortraege.html?nn=718448

Week07: 14 Dec – 20 Dec 2020:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/-W2QPozpIrw

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

Week08: 11 Jan – 17 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/ivS-eExCGHE

Week09: 18 Jan – 24 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/z_HhaOl9X3w

Week10: 25 Jan – 31 Jan 2021:

• Video recording of the class: presentations https://youtu.be/l2cZPHC1QRQ

Week11: 01 Feb – 07 Feb 2021:

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

Week12: 08 Feb – 14 Feb 2021:

• Video recording of the class: presentations https://youtu.be/JHorDaK5Vnk

Week13: 15 Feb – 21 Feb 2021:

• Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/VdzaS8Q_Zak

Week14: 22 Feb – 28 Feb 2021:

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