This course aims to present and identify that translation is a science. And to impart application of Linguistic knowledge to translating text into target language or back.
Upon completion of this course the students will be able to demonstrate understanding and ability to use effective language skills to do translation exercises.
Course Content
Translation Studies in Pakistan.
Types of Translation
Problems for a faithful Translator
Types of Translation
Textual Equivalence :Cohesion
Modern translations: across genres, poetry, essays, one act plays etc
Collocational patterning
Grammatical Equivalence
Interpretation
CAT
Careers in TRANSLATION
Translation Projects
Recommended Articles
Introduction to Semantics and Translation by Barnwell, K.
Translating the Word of God by Beekman, J. and Callow, J
Procedures and strategies for the translation of culture by Ivir, V. in 1987
Linguistics and ethnology in translation-problems by Nida, E. A. in 1964
Essential Reading
A Linguistic Theory of Translation by John Cunnison Catford
Publication Date: Oxford University Press, 1965
Lexical Semantics by D. A. Cruse, David Alan Cruse
Publication Date: Cambridge University Press, 1986
Aspects of Language by Dwight Bolinger, Donald A. Sears
Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981
Lexical semantics: fields and collocation by Frank Robert Palmer, ā€ˇFrank Robert
Publication Date: Cambridge University Press, 1981