28835 - Translation between Italian and French II (Second Language) L

Course contents

Into Italian (Prof. Danio Maldussi)

This course aims at training students to deal confidently with texts of several different types from French into Italian and focus on some of the most important notions in translation such as equivalence and functional approaches. Also, the course aims at increasing the students' awareness of the resources available on the web, while assessing the credibility of the author and the reliability of the materials found on the web. In order to develop translational competence and favour skills and vocabulary upgrading, the lessons will include propedeutic exercises to translation such as reformulation, explication de texte and extraction de notions clés. The students will practice on texts (traduction commentée and traduction à vue) that will focus mainly on the most important aspects of French and World actuality, such as politics, economy, environment and culture, just to name a few, taken from Le Nouvel Observateur, Les Echos, Le Courrier International and La Croix. Translations will then be analysed and discussed as a whole class activity.

These exercises aims to activate linguistic competence (synonyms and antonyms). This type of exercise is intended to enhance the students' linguistic resources as well as to provide them with useful strategies for translating.

Into French (Prof. Yannick Hamon)

The learning goals are the same as those of the second year students with an increasing difficulty of the source texts :

Methodological level :

Being conscious of beliefs, representations about both the translating process and French as target language; being conscious of learning strategies and specific translation strategies

Ability to construct an efficient methodology

Ability to spot linguistic and cultural problems on the source text

Understanding ability linked with the context of the communication act in the source text

Ability to use online resources for linguistic or encyclopedic purposes (searching tools, dictionaries, online encyclopedias, glossaries, comments in writing software tools, translators forums)

Knowledge and application of formal paging rules

Cooperate with other students

Linguistic level :

Ability to focus on errors due to interferences from italian to french

Strengthen writing competences

Strengthen syntactic and lexical knowledge and use in context in relation to the frequent problems

Ability to edit the translated product

Educational level

Ability of being open to a knew knowledge (source and target cultures)

Being conscious as a future translator or mediator of the ethical of the ethical responsibility

Readings/Bibliography

Into Italian (Danio Maldussi)

N. Celotti, Des mots dans tous les sens, Firenze, la Nuova Italia, 1995.

P. Charaudeau, Grammaire du sens et de l'expression, Paris, Hachette, 1992.

M. Grevisse, Le bon usage, Paris-Gembloux, Duculot 1986.

M. Hédiard, Langues voisines, langues faciles?, Roma, Studi Italiani di Linguistica teorica e applicata, XVIII, 1989.

J. Henry, La traduction des jeux de mots, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2003.

F. Mouillet. Zanetti, M. Carzacchi Fonda, L'acrobatraducteur, Réflexions et exercices grammaticaux pour la traduction italien-français, Niveau avancé, Roma, Aracne Editrice, 2006

S. Neegaard (a cura di), Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Milano, Bompiani, 1995.

F. Plassard, Lire pour traduire,Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2007.

J. Podeur, La pratica della traduzione, Napoli, Liguori 1993.

L. Serianni, Grammatica italiana, Torino, UTET, 1988.

P. Scampa, Pour une intra-traduction. Les exercises de style traductologiques http://www.intralinea.org/archive/article/Pour_une_intra-traduction

P. Scampa, Les «non amis» en FLE, Cahiers du R.A.P.T. – L'Harmattan Italia, 2008.

P. Scavée, P. Intravaia, Traité de stylistique comparée, Bruxelles, Didier, 197.

(At the student's choice) an Italian Monolingual Dictionary, a French Monolingual Dictionary and an Italian Synonyms Dictionary.

Into French (Yannick Hamon)

Theoretical aspects

Delisle, J. (2000), Portraits de traducteurs, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa.

Delisle, J. (2002), Portaits de traductrices, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa

Gile, D. (2005), La Traduction : la comprendre, l'apprendre, Paris : PUF.

Gouadec Daniel (2002), Profession : traducteur, alias Ingénieur en communication multilingue (et) multimédia, Paris : La Maison du dictionnaire.

Guidère, M. (2008). Introduction à la traductologie : penser la traduction : hier, aujourd'hui, demain. (1e éd.). Bruxelles, Belgique: De Boeck.

Osimo, B (2001) Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, Milano.

Osimo, B (2004) Manuale del traduttore, Hoepli, Milano.

Dictionaries

Bilingual

Garzanti : I grandi dizionari, Francese, De Agostini Scuola – Garzanti Linguistica

Monolingual (italian)

G. Devoto, G. C. Oli : Dizionario Devoto Oli della lingua italina, Firenze, Felice Le Monnier

Monolingual (french)

Robert : Le Petit Robert de la langue française, Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la

langue française, Paris, Dictionnaires Le Robert

A. Rey, S. Chantreau : Dictionnaire des synonymes, nuances et contraires, Paris,

Dictionnaires Le Robert, coll. “Les Usuels”

Robert : Dictionnaires des expressions et locutions, Paris, Dictionnaires Le Robert, coll.

“Les Usuels”

Robert : Dictionnaire des combinaisons de mots, Paris, Dictionnaires Le Robert, coll.

“Les Usuels”

Larousse : Dictionnaire analogique, sous la direction de Georges Niobey, Paris, Larousse, coll.

"Références"

Grammar

- M. Grevisse, A. Goosse: Le Bon Usage, 14ème édition, Bruxelles, De Boeck-Duculot

- M. Grevisse : Le français correct, guide pratique des difficultés, 6ème édition revue par Michèle

Lenoble-Pinson, Bruxelles, De Boeck-Duculot

- J. Hanse, D. Blampain : Nouveau dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne, 5ème

édition, Bruxelles, De Boeck

Teaching methods

Into Italian (Danio Maldussi)
Lessons combine different didactic strategies which include sight translation and individual translations carried out as homework. Research of documentation for translational purposes will also be focused upon.

Into French (Yannick Hamon)

By using the online italian press and by choosing 3 or 4 global themes about current issues, the teacher will stimulate the reflexion to improve the student's translation.

The first 2 lessons will be aimed at a general diagnostic and revisions through :

On line questionaries on translation strategy skills

Open discussion about beliefs, representations, experiences in relation to translation

Sight translation of short texts

Collaborative building of a translation toolbox

Collaborative building of an online theoretical documentation (links and brief description of the content)

The other 16 lessons will be aimed at :

Translation and critical comment of the translations done by 2 students, revised and edited by 2 other students. These translations will be uploaded on moodle.

Sight translations or collaborative translations of short texts

Updates on lexical or redactional concerns spotted on previous translations

The last 2 lessons will be aimed at :

A pre test assessment

Face to face collaborative revision/correction and auto-assessment based on the criteria described on the assessment part (see assessment methods)

Assessment methods

Into Italian (Danio Maldussi)

Assessment is by 2 hours written examination.

Into French (Yannick Hamon)

The students will have to translate a text of about 150-170 words. The content of the text will be in relation to the themes seen during the lessons.

The criteria are based on the respect of :

General layout and format from ST to TT

Macro textual norms of the text typology from ST to TT

Communication context from ST to TT

General and specific meaning in the the frame of the communication context

Linguistic aspects (spelling, syntax, vocabulary)

Correct use of idiomatic structures in french and translation of the cultural elements in the ST

Teaching tools

Into Italian (Danio Maldussi)

Video projector, PC, overhead projector.

Into French (Yannick Hamon)

PC, DVD or Video Recorder Player, Video Projector, Moodle

Office hours

See the website of Danio Maldussi

See the website of Yannick Hamon