90728 - Introduction to Dialogue Interpreting between Slovak and Italian

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student knows strategies of language mediation and is able to use them in basic communicative situations.

Course contents

- texts, introduction, personalities of Slovak translatology

- analysis of texts. Professions and services (classic shop and e-shop, professions and services, running a business vs. being an employee)

- Art and culture – where to go (theatre, film, gallery, fashion, photography). Slovak Culture and Literature. Slovak and Italian interliterary relations.

- Slovak republic nowadays (political system, national symbols, famous politicians, elections, suffrage)

- Slovakia tourist guide (important holidays in Slovakia, UNESCO sights, Slovak castles, chateaux and manor houses, interesting events, traditional meals and drinks).

Readings/Bibliography

Nemčíková, Zuzana - Šuša, Ivan, 2022. Corso di Lingua Slovacca. Milano: Hoepli.

Kamenárová, Renáta a kol., 2011: Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina B1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Kročanová-Roberts, Dagmar – Resutíková-Toppi, Barbora, 2010: Slovenčina-Slovacco-Slovak. Bologna: BUP.

Vertanová, S. – Andoková, M. – Štubňa, P. – Moyšová, S., 2015: Tlmočník ako rečník. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo UK.

Štubňa, Pavol, 2015: Základy simultánneho tlmočenia. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Štubňa, Pavol, 2018: Ekonomika pre tlmočníkov z/do taliančiny. Bratislava: Z-F LINGUA.

Šuša, Ivan, 2011: Gli aspetti comparativi e di traduzione nei rapporti interletterari slovacco-italiani. Banská Bystrica: UMB.

Šuša, Ivan: La letteratura italiana attraverso i modelli di ricezione nella cultura slovacca prima e dopo il 1989. In: InTraLinea. Online translation journal. Bologna, DIT, 2021, vol. 23.

Il link: https://www.intralinea.org/current

Teaching methods

The class combines didactic methods and uses different learning activities, in order to provide students with the communicative grammar of Slovak language and Culture and train all basic skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). Activities include revision and practice of grammar, reading and listening comprehension, oral and written summaries of texts, translations, syntactic and stylistic analysis of the texts etc.

Assessment methods

Students are required to:

Attend the classes and prepare regularly for the lessons.

Pass a final exam (written test and an oral exam*).

Any change of the requirements or evaluation procedures will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

* Topics for oral exam will be announced in advance.

Teaching tools

books, power-point presentation, audiomaterial, visual aids (grammar maps).

Office hours

See the website of Zuzana Kubusova