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44326 - Terminology and Language for Special Purposes (8 Credits)

Academic Year 2007/2008

Docente: Franco Bertaccini
Credits: 8
SSD: L-LIN/02
Language: Italian

Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Campus: Forli
Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Conference interpreting (cod. 0428)

Learning outcomes

“GENRE” terminology course

Prototype: a database for interpreting students

The course proposes a project for interpreting students with the following didactic objectives:

acquisition of new terminology and phraseology;
familiarization with the information tool and in particular with specific terminology software;
acquisition of a new operating method preparatory to the future limited working times, which allows students to sustain them and to accelerate the preparation procedures preceding the conference;
creation of a personalized glossary as a future resource fundamental for the profession of the interpreter.

Course contents

“Genre” terminology concept

Extract predefined corpora from specific sites

Representative and balanced corpora

Automatic and manual creation of corpora

How to describe a corpus: bibliography and sitography

Orality as a genre: genres of orality:

Parliamentary interventions
Conferences
Debates
Round tables
Oral reports
Discourses
Moderator coordination interventions

Description of corpora: graphs with Excel

MultiTerm Database and terminological card models for Interpreters

Speech signals
Connectors
Locutions
Predicative terms with support verbs
Proverbs
Idioms
Verbal collocations in definite domain

Parallel and comparison corpora

Research and detection of intralinguistic equivalents: synonyms and variants

Research and detection of interlinguistic equivalents

Manual creation of corpora

Speech signals extraction

Creation of the genre Database for speech signals: the MultiTerm card

Connectors' extraction

Creation of the genre Database for connectors: the MultiTerm card

Locution extraction

Creation of the genre Database for locutions: the MultiTerm card

Extraction of predicative terms with support verbs

Creation of the genre Database for predicative terms with support verbs: the MultiTerm card

Aligned comparison and parallel corpora for the semi-automatic extraction of genre terminology

The “Aligner” function of WordSmith

The “Term Extract” function of MultiTerm

Extraction of bilingual and trilingual interlinguistic equivalents

The course is divided into 72 hours of lesson (36 lessons) distributed on 12 weeks (3 lessons per week) carried out in the information laboratory.

The didactic methods can be divided in three fundamental stages:

Collecting terminological and phraseological resources. Creation of specific reference corpora in a given domain and a given textual genre, through the use of programs for the extraction of terminology [1] (WordSmith).

Filling of the collected resources. During this stage students have to fill a number of terminological and phraseological cards which are later on archived in a unique database. We propose a new setting for the terminological cards, which aims to satisfy the didactic needs of the interpreter.

Consulting the database. During this last stage students have to consult the tools he has created.

Then, when we talk about prototype, we refer to the database we have still described, an “exclusive” database used “exclusively” by the interpreting student.

Starting from the concept of figement we introduce new grammatical categories into the terminological/phraseological cards, such as locutions, speech signals and predicative nouns, which have great importance for the interpreting student.

We propose extremely renewed card models through the introduction of new fields (functions, expansions) and through a new interpretation of the traditional fields (such as variants, or usage notes), proposing a more dynamic and useful instrument, in line with the needs demonstrated by the interpreting student.

Readings/Bibliography

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Aston, G. (2000). “I corpora come risorse per la traduzione e per l'apprendimento”, in S. Bernardini, F. Zanettin (a cura di) (2000). Bologna: Clueb, pp. 21-29

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Sitography for Interpreters

Google, search engine: www.google.it

www.google.de

www.google.fr

Thematic database of the European Union.

http://www.europa.eu.int/geninfo/info/guide/dbsubject/index_it.htm

Banque de Terminologie du Québec

http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/dictionnaires/Internet/Index/d_anglais.html

Direzione generale della traduzione della Commissione Europea

http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/translation/

Direzione generale di interpretazione dell'Unione Europea

http://europa.eu.int/comm/scic/index_it.htm

Eurodicautom

http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

Eurovoc

http://europa.eu.int/celex/eurovoc/cgi/sga_doc?eurovoc_dif!SERVEUR/menu!prod!MENU&langue=IT

ISO (International Organization for Standardization)

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage

Scadplus, Glossario dell'Unione Europea in lingua italiana

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/glossary/index_it.htm

Termdok

http://www.rtt.org/Termdok.html

Termisti

http://www.termisti.refer.org/termisti.htm

Termium

http://www.termium.gc.ca/site/accueil_home_f.html

Wikipedia, L'enciclopedia libera

http://it.widipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale