Time: 10-12 am, Friday, Fall Semester. Classroom: 412 Yifu Guan II, Gulou Campus, Nanjing University. Instructor: Prof Ke Ping (keping00ATyahoo.com). Office hours: By appointment. Office: Rm. 210, Bld. Geng (庚字楼), Gulou Campus.

Course Description

This intensive course is intended to provide an introduction to basic concepts and issues in Translation Studies (TS) and a broad-based foundation for further studies of translation. Students will learn to develop an awareness of different perspectives of translation as well as a rational approach to translation in their own practice. Major issues in or related to translation are identified and discussed with reference to different conceptual frameworks that have been developed in international and Chinese TS communities. Students attend lectures and participate in class discussions to explore this multiplex, interdisciplinary area of inquiry. As part of the course work, they will be required to sit in a final examination and/or write in English a term paper informed by what is discussed in class.

Course Outline

Course Resources

1. Main texts (assigned reading):

Shuttleworth, Mark, & Cowie, Moira. 1997. Dictionary of translation studies. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. xvii+233 pp.

Munday, Jeremy. (2001). Introducing translation studies: theories and applications. London: Routledge. xv+221pp.

2. Recommended reading:

Translation Studies: A Short Reading List for MA Students (http://dhost.info/pingke/T-Bib-ShortReadingListForMAStudents.htm)

翻译研究文库 (Translation Studies Library I, II, …….北京：外研社. 2006- .)

国外翻译研究丛书 (上海：上海外语教育出版社. 2001- .)

3. Course supporting website (any of the following):

http://dhost.info/pingke/TOC/TS.html

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/keping/TOC/TS.htm/

Methods of Instruction

Two classroom contact hours per week. A combination of lectures and short student presentations. Student presentations will be focused on:

(1) assigned readings; and

(2) translation with commentary assignments which students complete out of class on a research basis (involving both translating and annotating) and bring to the class for discussion. (Translation assignments can be downloaded from http://dhost.info/pingke/TOC/T.html or http://www.eccentrix.com/members/keping/TOC/TS.htm/. A sample of annotation translation can be found at: http://dhost.info/pingke/Ex-T-AnnotatedTSample.htm or http://www.eccentrix.com/members/keping/Ex-T-AnnotatedTSample.htm.)

Class Schedule *

Class Session 1 Course introduction / The name and nature of translation / Types of translation

Class Session 2 The scope and objects of Translation Studies

Class Session 3 Qualities of a good theory

Class Session 4 The Philological School 1

Class Session 5 The Philological School 2

Class Session 6 The Hermeneutic School

Class Session 7 The Linguistic School 1

Class Session 8 The Linguistic School 2

Class Session 9 The Communicative School

Class Session 10 The Sociosemiotic School 1

Class Session 11 The Sociosemiotic School 2

Class Session 12 The Sociosemiotic School 3

Class Session 13 The Skopos Theory

Class Session 14 The Manipulative School / The Norm Theory

Class Session 15 The Post-structuralist and Postcolonial Schools

Class Session 16 Commercial translation / Media translation

* Depending on time available, one or two topics listed here may be not covered in class in the current semester.

Assessment

Assessment will be based on:

(1) class attendance and contribution to the course (raising and responding to questions, participating in class discussion, finding and sharing quality learning resources, etc.) (10%);

(2) presentation(s) on assigned readings (20%);

(3) presentation(s) on translation assignments (30%); and

(4) final examination or term paper (40%). The term paper may be about, but not limited to, one of the following topics [see http://dhost.info/pingke/T-ITS-Syllabus.htm or http://www.eccentrix.com/members/keping/T-ITS-Syllabus.htm].:

Allusions and metaphors	Bible translation	Bilingual lexicography & T
Children’s literature in T	Commercial translation	Corpus in translation and TS
Cultural considerations in T	Descriptive translation studies	Discourse analysis and T
Domesticating vs foreignizing	Drama translation	Equivalent effect in translation
Error analysis	Fiction translation	Film and TV translation
Fine arts translation	Functional equivalence	FSP and translation
Hermeneutics and translation	History of translation	Information technology and T
Institutional translation	Intertextuality and translation	Journalistic translation
Language teaching & T	Legal translation	Linguistic aspects of T
Linguistic benefits of T	Localization and translation	Machine-assisted T (CAT)
Machine translation (MT)	Multiple T and retranslation	Optimal equivalence
Philosophical writings in T	Poetic translation	Political translation
Post-structuralist view of T	Public signs in translation	Semantic vs communicative T
Semantics of translation	Semiotics and translation	Source text analysis
Study of individual translators	Stylistic problems in T	Subject expertise
Technical translation	Terminology management	Textlinguistics and translation
Translatability	Translating-editing	Translation criticism
Translationese and Chinglish	Translation procedures	Translation quality assessment
Translation standards	Translation technologies	Translator training

南京学外国语学院英语系研究生课程

翻译研究导论：教学大纲

课程时间：秋季学期每周五上午10:00-12:00 教室：南京大学鼓楼校区逸夫馆II 412 教师：柯平教授 (keping00ATyahoo.com) 办公时间：预约 办公室：鼓楼校区庚字楼210室

课程编号

050201X11

课程目标要求

本课程旨在介绍翻译研究的基本概念、基本问题和前沿领域，讨论国际与国内翻译研究界关注的焦点和主要研究视角，为进一步学习与研究此学科打下较为宽厚的基础，同时通过研究性翻译练习增强学生对翻译实践的理性认识，提高翻译水平。翻译方向博士研究生通过这一课程的学习，可以对翻译研究领域有一整体把握，熟悉中西翻译理论界的研究框架，深入了解翻译研究的跨学科性质。