TRANSLATION STUDIES (ENG-7007)
Level: MS / MPhil
Description
Translation Studies is an academic discipline that explores the practice, process and product of translation from both linguistic and cultural viewpoints. Interest in translation is practically as old as human civilization and there is a vast body of literature on the subject dating back at least to the antiquity. With the advent of globalization, however, this discipline has come into a dynamic interaction with such subjects as history, literature, linguistics, semantics, media studies, corpus linguistics and so on. Its nature is, therefore, interdisciplinary and it seeks to synthesize insights emerging from different disciplines with reference to the theory and practice of translation.
The course is geared towards an imparting intimate knowledge of the subject by exploring the role of translation in intercultural and intracultural relations and to find out how it is used to make communication possible and efficient. The course also focuses on the relationship between translation and other aspects of language use such as language patterning, textual organization and the semiotics of verbal and non-verbal communication.
Major focus will be on the following topics:
· Self-Translation
· Kinds of Translation (word-for-word, sense-for-sense)
· Translating Idioms, Metaphors and Fixed Expressions
· Translation, Genre and Register (brief discussion on translating different kinds of text e.g. legal, medical, scientific, business, technical, political, literary, etc.)
· Major Techniques and Strategies of Translation (Foreignization, Domestication)
· Translation and Pedagogy
· Research Issues in Translation
· Translation Product and Process
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Cultural and Ideological Turn
· Philosophical Approaches to Translation
Recommended Readings
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