“Translation Studies”
The course aims to provide students with translation skills by referring to specific and various translation methods and typologies. The course also aims to develop methodological knowledge from a Translation Studies perspective to analyse literary text and its intersemiotic translations. Furthermore, concerning the Dublin descriptors, the aim is to develop:


1) Knowledge and Understanding: developing the ability to understand from a comparative perspective a source text and its translations from a linguistic, stylistic and rhetorical point of view, as well as the historical-cultural context to which the text belongs, the characteristics of the authorial idiolect and the peculiarities of the target text related to the translator’s choices.

2) Applying Knowledge and Understanding: developing the ability to acquire and use analytical tools to compare source texts and their translated versions from a contrastive perspective.

3) Making Judgements: developing the ability to analyze and select significant texts in English to assess their characteristics and the quality of their translated versions, both from an interlinguistic and inter-semiotic perspective.


4) Communication Skills aim at a full understanding of the texts analyzed in the course, of those listed in the course bibliography, and of the notions and methodology needed for communicative interaction during individual/group presentations.

5) Learning Skills: achievement of specific competence in the field of translation analysis as well as in television and film adaptations as a practice of intersemiotic translation. Developing skills in Public Speaking to present group and/or individual works on the issues mentioned above.