Prática de Retroversão Portugues-Inglês
2023/2024
Tania Gregg
Email address: silvatania@campus.ul.pt
This practical course will focus on improving students' skills in the translation of three main
types of texts into English. The texts used for translation/revision will be selected on the basis of their suitability to highlight specific grammatical structures, complex sentence
constructions, register, technical vocabulary and underlying cultural concepts. The main aim
of each translation exercise will be to gear students towards a less literal approach to the text in hand, and to guide them in their pursuit of strategies to render their final version fluent and natural.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the following areas:
Contrastive awareness of English and Portuguese
Present Perfect and Past Simple forms in English
Omission and use of the definite and indefinite article
Word order
Register
Awareness of conventions linked to genre and text type
Managing sentence length
The three main areas of focus are as follows:
Journalistic texts
Academic papers
Economic texts
Assessment Criteria
10 October - group assignment (journalistic) - 10%
31 October - group assignment (academic)- 10%
7 November - Test 1 (Part 1- journalistic) -*The combined mark of Part 1 and Part 2 - 40%
9 November - Test 1 (Part 2 - academic)
7 December - Test 2 - (Part 1 -Economic) -*The combined mark of Part 1 and Part 2 - 40%
12 December - Test 2 - (Part 2 - Economic)
*PLEASE NOTE
· Students must be present for ALL the elements of evaluation in order to pass the course
· All study materials will be uploaded onto the Moodle platform. The teacher will inform the students of the material required for each class as the course progresses.
· A tutorial session via Zoom will be available on Wednesdays from 2pm-3pm. The link will be uploaded onto the Moodle platform
References
Bellos, D.(2012) Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. London. Penguin
Cook, Guy (2010) Translation in Language Teaching: A Case for Reassessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Davies, M. (2004) Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom. Amsterdam &Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Duff, Alan (1989) Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kerr, Philip (2014) Translation and Own-Language Activities. Cambridge: CUP
Nida, E. (2002) Contexts in Translation. Amsterdam. John Benjamins
Useful Websites
https://www.bl.uk/ (The British Library)
https://iate.europa.eu/home (European Union Terminology)
https://www.proz.com/ (forum)
https://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/ (forum)
Online Dictionaries
https://dicionario.priberam.org/
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/
https://www.oed.com/ (subscription)
https://www.onelook.com/
http://purl.pt/index/geral/PT/index.html (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal)