German - Research seminar in translation and interpretation

ltrad2310  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

German - Research seminar in translation and interpretation
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Gallez Françoise;
Language
Deutsch
Prerequisites
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Main themes
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Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The seminar deals with the research in the field of translation studies and interpretology for the language combination French-German through lectures, the reading of scientific articles, presentations and discussions. In 2015-2016, the course will focus the (theoretical) frameworks of Construction Grammar, linguistic typology and valence theory, with a special emphasis on the expression of motion and on resultatives.
Teaching methods
Seminar involving an active participation of students: reading list, classroom discussions, oral presentations
Evaluation methods
-    Formative assessment
-    Certificate assessment:
a)    Oral presentation
b)    Term paper, containing original research, to be submitted by the end of November
c)    Oral defence in January
August/September: written paper + oral exam
The written and oral assignments are personal assignments that will reflect the student's skills. The references have to be mentioned adequately. Any (attempted) cheating, such as the use of machine translation, writing the work by third parties, plagiarism, etc. will be sanctioned according to the règlement général des études et des examens.
Other information
Papers and other online resources during term (a.o. via moodle)
Online resources
-    Online reviews accessible via the UCL libraries
-    Online tools :
http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
http://www.ids-mannheim.de
http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/evalbu/index.html
https://konstruktionsgrammatik.wordpress.com/
http://www.dwds.de
http://www.duden.de
Bibliography
Berthele, R. (2006). Ort und Weg: Die sprachliche Raumreferenz in Varietäten des Deutschen, Rätoromanischen und Französischen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Feihl, Stefan (2009). Resultativkonstruktionen mit Prädikatsadjektiv und ihre Übersetzung aus dem Deutschen ins Französische, Italienische, Spanische und Portugiesische. Frankfurt am Main: Lang.
Goldberg, Adele (1995). Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Goldberg, Adele (2006). Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford University Press.
Jörn, Albrecht (2004): Übersetzung und Linguistik - Grundlagen der Übersetzungsforschung II Tübingen: Narr ISBN: 978-3-8233-6075-9
Pourcel, Stéphanie, and Anneta Kopecka (2005). Motion expression in French: Typological diversity. Durham and Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 11: 139'153.
Rojo, Ana & Ibarrtxe-Antuñano, Iraide (2013). Cognitive linguistics and translation: advances in some theoretical models and applications. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José & Agustín Llach, María Pilar (in press). Cognitive Pedagogical Grammar and meaning construction in L2. In: Applied Construction Grammar, De Knop, Sabine and Gaëtanelle Gilquin (eds.).   Berlin: de Gruyter.
Saldanha, Gabriela & O'Brien, Sharon (2013). Research methodologies in translation studies. Manchester, UK : St. Jerome.  
Stolze, Radegundis (2011): Übersetzungstheorien - Eine Einführung 6., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Tübingen: Narr ISBN: 978-3-8233-6679-9
Ziem, Alexander and Lasch, Alexander (2013). Konstruktionsgrammatik: Konzepte und Grundlagen gebrauchsbasierter Ansätze.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Germanistische Arbeitshefte)
Faculty or entity
LSTI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Interpreting

Master [120] in Translation