Objective
Through learning this course, students are expected to
? gain basic insight into the nature and principles of translation;
? command basic skills of translation;
? understand various fields of translation business;
? gain sustainable capacity for future learning in translation;
? appreciate the beauty of language and culture through translation.
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Unit 1 |
Introduction to Translation |
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Unit 2 |
Word Translation Skills: Conversion, Amplification and Omission |
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Unit 3 |
Sentence Translation Skills (I): Inversion, passivity and negation |
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Unit 4 |
Sentence Translation Skills (II): Attributive and adverbial clauses |
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Unit 5 |
Sentence Translation Skills (III): long sentences |
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Unit 6 |
Translation of Idioms and Proverbs |
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Unit 7 |
Translation: a textual approach |
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Unit 8 |
Translation: a cultural approach |
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Unit 9 |
Computer-aided Translation (I): dictionaries, search engines and online corpuses |
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Unit 10 |
Computer-aided Translation (II): CAT tools |
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Unit 11 |
Translation of Film Titles and Scripts |
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Unit 12 |
Translation of News |
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Unit 13 |
Translation of Advertisements |
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Unit 14 |
Translation of Business Documents |
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Unit 15 |
Literary Translation (I): essays |
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Unit 16 |
Literary Translation (II): novels |
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Unit 17 |
Literary Translation (III): poetry |
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Unit 18 |
Proofreading and Optimization of Translation |