TRANSLATION AND SPECIALIZED LANGUAGES (POLITICS, ECONOMICS, SCIENCE) - SPANISH

The module ‘Translation and Specialist Languages (Politics, Economics, Science) – Spanish’ is taught in the first year of the Master’s degree programme in Specialist, Multimedia and Accessibility Translation – Specialist and Media Accessibility Translation curriculum, and forms part of a strongly vocational training programme in the field of specialist translation. The course aims to develop students’ advanced skills in the analysis and translation of specialist texts in Spanish, with particular reference to the political, economic and scientific sectors – fields in which translation requires a solid command of linguistic structures, discursive conventions and specific sectoral terminology
The teaching has a marked practical and applied focus, whilst maintaining a constant reference to the main contemporary theories of translation studies. With this in mind, teaching activities will alternate between periods of theoretical reflection and guided translation exercises, aimed at developing in students a greater awareness of the decision-making processes that characterise the translation process.

The Spanish Language and Translation course aims to progressively introduce students to the theory, methodology and practice of specialized translation between Spanish and Italian, with particular emphasis on linguistic aspects in a translatological key. The concept of translation will be presented as an act of interlinguistic and intercultural mediation. In this regard, the basic notions of the theory of modern translation will be provided and subsequently all the strategies that the translator has at his disposal to conduct the process of interlingual transposition will be illustrated. The expected learning outcomes are as follows:

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- To Know the problems related to the linguistic affinity between Spanish and Italian
- To Know the main aspects of the theory and practice of translation
- To Know the main aspects of Spanish political, economic and scientific phraseology from a translation perspective
- To Know the basic aspects of the practice and professional ethics of a translator's work (for institutions or freelancers).
- To understand texts of high complexity content
- To understand specialized texts

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- To recognize the linguistic difficulties in the translation act
- To assimilate the strategies and methodological principles on which the translation process is based
- To identify and resolve translation problems through an analysis process related to the various text types, more or less specialized
- To know how to translate the phraseology effectively

CAPACITY OF JUDGMENT
- To know how to reflect on the role of linguistic contrast between Spanish and Italian in a translatological key
- To know how to comment critically on your translation choices

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- To know how to deal with a a translation project

LEARNING ABILITY
- To be able to critically consult the reference bibliography as well as the bilingual lexicographical repertoires

Students must possess a C1 linguistic-communicative competence in Spanish according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages.

Translation and Terminology (creation of glossaries).
Phraseology and translation
Textual analysis (style, function, register, etc.)
Translation techniques and strategies. The translation process as an act of interlinguistic and intercultural mediation.
Analysis of translation errors. Type of errors (linguistic interferences).
Documentation phase (reference material, use of dictionaries and other sources).
Professional and deontological aspects of the translator work.
Writing a linguistic and translatological comment

The course will be structured around the following thematic modules, designed to gradually introduce students to the translation of key specialist texts between Spanish and Italian:

Module 1 – Theory and methodology of specialised Spanish-Italian translation
Introduction to the main theoretical models of specialised translation, with particular attention to source text analysis methodologies, translation strategies and contrastive issues between Spanish and Italian.

Module 2 – Introduction to Spanish-Italian translation of political language
Analysis of the linguistic and discursive characteristics of political and institutional language, and guided translation of texts from this field (institutional speeches, political statements, political analysis articles, official documents).

Module 3 – Introduction to Spanish-Italian translation of economic and commercial language
Study of the main characteristics of economic and commercial language and translation of specialist texts such as economic articles, market reports, corporate communications and economic and financial documents.

Module 4 – Introduction to Spanish-Italian translation of scientific and technical language
Introduction to the linguistic and terminological peculiarities of scientific and technical language, with translation exercises involving popular and specialist texts in the scientific field, with particular attention to precision

COMPULSORY

BAZZOCCHI, G. y SAN VICENTE, F. (eds. y coords) (2021). LETI. Lengua española para traducir e interpretar. Bologna, Clueb.

TROVATO, G. (2022). El comentario lingüístico-traductológico entre lenguas tipológicamente afines (español-italiano). Granada, Editorial Comares.

CONSULTATION AND REFERENCE TEXTS

BERTAZZOLI, R. (2006). La traduzione: teorie e metodi, Roma, Carocci.

CALVI, M. V., BORDONABA ZABALZA, C., MAPELLI, G., SANTOS LÓPEZ, J. (2009), Las lenguas de especialidad en español. Roma, Carocci.

DIADORI, Pierangela (2012). Teoria e Tecnica della traduzione. Milano, Mondadori Education

HURTADO ALBIR, A. (2011, quinta edición revisada), Traducción y traductología. Madrid, Cátedra.

LEFEVRE, M. (2015). La traduzione dallo spagnolo. Teoria e pratica. Roma, Carocci.

LEFEVRE, M., TESTAVERDE, T. (2011). Tradurre lo spagnolo. Roma, Carocci.

NEWMARK, P. (1995). Manual de traducción. Madrid, Cátedra.

SCARPA, F. (2008), La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale. Milano, Hoepli.

SUAU JIMÉNEZ, F. (2010). La traducción especializada (en inglés y español en géneros de economía y empresa). Madrid, ArcoLibros.

DIZIONARI MONOLINGUI

Manuel SECO, Olimpia ANDRÉS y Gabino RAMOS, Diccionario del español actual, Madrid, Aguilar, 1999.

María MOLINER, Diccionario de uso del español, Madrid, Gredos

AA.VV., CLAVE, Diccionario de uso del español actual, Madrid, SM, ultima ed.

Diccionario de la lengua española, REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1992.

Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos del español actual, Madrid, SM, 2002.

N. ZINGARELLI, Il nuovo Zingarelli, dizionario della lingua italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, ultima edizione (con CD-ROM)

Dizionario dei sinonimi e contrari, Divisione UTET, Garzanti Linguistica, 2001


DIZIONARI BILINGUI

Dizionari bilingui:

Arqués, R., Padoan A. (2020). Dizionario spagnolo-italiano, italiano-español. Bologna: Zanichelli.

Sañé, S., Schepisi G. (2005). VOX - Il dizionario di Spagnolo. Dizionario Spagnolo-Italiano Italiano-Spagnolo. Bologna: Zanichelli.

Sañé, S., Schepisi G. (2014). Dizionario spagnolo-italiano di frasi idiomatiche, colloquiali e gergali. Bologna: Zanichelli.

Seco, M., Andrés, O., Ramos, G. (2004). Diccionario fraseológico documentado del español actual. Madrid: Aguilar.

Tam, L. (2021). Grande dizionario di Spagnolo. Gran diccionario italiano-español. Milano: Hoepli.

VV.AA (2018). Grande dizionario di spagnolo. Spagnolo-Italiano Italiano-Spagnolo. Levis (TN): Garzanti Linguistica.

The examination consists of a written paper, lasting a total of three hours, designed to assess both translation skills and the ability to engage in theoretical reflection developed during the course.

The paper is divided into two parts.

The first part involves the translation from and/or into Spanish of various text types belonging to the specialist fields covered during the course (political, economic-commercial and scientific). The translations must be accompanied by a translation commentary, in which the student is required to explain the main translation choices made and discuss the strategies employed. This part of the exam contributes to the final mark up to a maximum of 20 marks.

The second part consists of drafting and presenting, in Spanish, a theoretical response addressing the main aspects of the theory and methodology of specialised Spanish-Italian translation covered during the course. This section of the exam contributes to the final mark up to a maximum of 10 marks.

The exam is considered passed with a minimum mark of 18/30.

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The lecturer has a duty to ensure that the rules regarding the authenticity and originality of exam tests and papers are respected. Therefore, if there is suspicion of irregular conduct, an additional assessment may be conducted, which could differ from the original exam description.

The final mark will follow the following pattern:

INSUFFICIENT
≤17 - Inadequate, fragmentary and deficient knowledge of content, which is not understood or is understood and reworked only partially. Inappropriate thinking skills and exposition.

SUFFICIENT
18 - Very uncertain knowledge of content, which is necessarily to be consolidated, and which is confusedly understood and reworked. Ability to reflect and expound.
19 - Confused knowledge of content, which needs to be consolidated, and which is understood and reworked in a confused manner. Sufficient reflection and exposition skills.
20 - Sufficient content knowledge, which still needs to be partially consolidated, and which is understood and reworked in a manner that is not always entirely adequate. Sufficient reflection and exposition skills.

DISCRETE
21 - More than sufficient knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked albeit with some uncertainties. Fair reflection and exposition skills.
22 - Fair knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked with some uncertainties. Fair reflection and exposition skills.
23 - More than fair knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked with some uncertainties. Fair reflection and exposition skills.

GOOD
24 - Correct knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked albeit with some uncertainty. Good reflective and expository skills.
25 - Correct knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked fairly confidently and coherently. Fair reflection and exposition skills.
26 - Complete knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in a fairly confident and coherent manner. Fair reflection and exposition skills.

VERY GOOD
27 - Complete knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in a confident, cohesive and coherent manner. Remarkable reflective and expository skills.
28 - Complete and thorough knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in a confident, cohesive and coherent manner. Remarkable reflective and expository skills.

EXCELLENT
29 - Comprehensive and thorough knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in a confident, cohesive and coherent manner with full autonomy and personal insights. Excellent reflective and expository skills, albeit with minor imperfections.
30 - Extensive and thorough knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in a secure, cohesive and coherent manner with full autonomy and personal insights. Excellent reflective and expository skills.

30 e Lode (with high praise) - Extremely thorough and cross-cutting knowledge of content, which is understood and reworked in total autonomy and with personal contribution, with full command of specialized language and excellent ability to make interdisciplinary connections.Full capacity for reflection and exposition.

Lectures will be held entirely in Spanish language and will have the form of seminars, with the help of a power point in order to deal with the theory and methodology of specialized translation. Participation and involvement of students will be encouraged through practical tests and translation projects aimed at simulating the professional practice of specialized translation.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development