COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSLATION-ORIENTED TEXT ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MÜA 5041 TRANSLATION-ORIENTED TEXT ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

GERMAN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLPERI SERT

Offered to

GERMAN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce students with various text analysis models to use for translation preparation and translation criticism and enable them to gain translation competence. The course is both theory and practice oriented. Through the course, text-type oriented, pragmatic, polysystemic and functional approaches about text analysis will be handled, the analysis methods and appropriate translation methods will be practiced on selected texts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students can explain the text types.
2   Students can learn the importance of text analysis in translation studies.
3   Students can use the appropriate analysis model for text types.
4   Students cananalyse the texts in an integrated approach that includes linguistic and non-linguistic, textual and non-textual references.
5   Students can take proper decisions in the translation process and show creativity in translation and criticism competence

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the aim, content, practice and evaluation of the course
2 Basic concepts: text , text type , text subtypes , function of the text , text analysis
3 Theoretical approaches to text analysis: general introduction
4 Text type oriented approach (Katharina Reiss)
5 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice (informative texts)
6 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice (expressive texts)
7 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice (operative texts)
8 Midterm
9 Pragmatic approach (Juliane House)
10 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice
11 Polysystemic approach (Raymond van den Broeck)
12 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice
13 Functional approach (Margret Ammann, Christiane Nord)
14 Exemplary text analysis and translation practice

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Nord, Christiane (2009): Textanalyse und Übersetzen. Theoretische Grundlagen, Methode und didaktische Anwendung einer übersetzungsrelevanten Textanalyse. 4., überarbeitete Auflage. Tübingen: Julius Groos Verlag. Reiß, Katharina (1976) Texttyp und Übersetzungsmethode. Der operative Text. Berlin: Cornelsen. House, Juliane (1997): Translation quality assessment: a model revisited. Tübingen: Narr.
Supplementary Book(s): Sakine Esen-Eruz (2008): Akademik Çeviri Eğitimi. Çeviri Amaçlı Metin Çözümlemesi. Istanbul: Multilingua
Materials: German and Turkish text examples

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures 2. Presentations 3. Discussion 4. Practice 5. Case study 6. Problem solving
7. Teamwork 8. Individual study 9. Report preparation and presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 5 3 15
Preparing presentations 5 3 15
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 154

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1555
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.55555

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