Universität Wien

340135 UE Translation of Functional Texts: Japanese (2015S)

Englisch / Japanisch / Englisch

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 34 - Translationswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Students can unregister from the course until 31 March 2015.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: Japanese

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 19.03. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 26.03. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 16.04. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 30.04. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 07.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 21.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 28.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 11.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 18.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG
  • Thursday 25.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 2.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Translating texts from a variety of fields from Japanese into English and from English into Japanese. Texts to be translated include newspaper articles, advertisement texts, multimedia texts, etc. Translation assignments covered in this course are at an introductory to intermediate level.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active class participation, homework assignments, written exams.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Developing basic translation skills. Students learn to apply their language and cultural expertise as well as contrastive text competence skills in a variety of transcultural communication situations.

Examination topics

Various texts are analysed on the word, sentence and textual level and subsequently translated into the target language. Translations are prepared by students in advance and discussed in class.

Reading list

Will be announced in class and made available via the Moodle platform.

Association in the course directory

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