70070 - Translation from Italian into Russian I (Second Language)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the students with the basic tools and methodology necessary to translate simple texts of different types from Italian into Russian. At the end of the course the students should be able to apply the most appropriate translation strategies in order to render the content and the pragmatics of the source texts into the target language.   

Course contents

The course aims at providing the students with the basic techniques and strategies in order to be able to produce an adequate russian translation of simple italian texts.

In addition to thorough practicing of the morfologic and sintactic structures studied al the Grammar course in the first term, a special attention will be paid to the following arguments:

- trasliteration of proper names with the russian alphabet

- word order

- translation of specific cultural terms

- use of bi- and monolingual dictionaries, as well as of the other translation tools

During the course various texts of general culture of Italy will be translated. The texts will cover different themes like places and events of touristic interest, history, traditions, food, modern culture, etc. 

The texts will be provided during the course in electronic format. The translations will be prepaired individually by the students and, afterwards, will be analysed and commented in class.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Translation:

J. Dobrovolskaja (2016) Il Russo: l'ABC della traduzione, HOEPLI, Milano

Grammar:

N. Nikitina (2016) Corso di russo, Livelli B1-B2, HOEPLI, Milano

C. Cevese, J.Dobrovolskaja, E.Magnanini (2000) Grammatica russa, Morfologia, HOEPLI, Milano

O. Glazunova (2011) Grammatika russkogo jazyka, Sintaksis, Zlatoust, Sankt-Peterburg

Bilingual dictionaries:

B. Majzel', N. Skvorcova, Bolšoj russko-ital'janskij slovar', Russkij jazyk, Moskva

V.Kovalev, IlKovalev, Dizionario italiano-russo, russo-italiano, Zanichelli

Monolingual dictionary:

S. Ožegov, Slovar' russkogo jazyka, Russkij jazyk, Moskva

Teaching methods

Lectures, interactive workshops, seminars with the use of Internet.

Assessment methods

Final exam: written translation of a text of circa 150 words with the use of a bilingual dictionary.

At the end of the course students will have a possibility to do a mock-exam, which will not influence the final marks.

Teaching tools

Personal computer, beamer, e-learning platform Moodle

Office hours

See the website of Ksenia Balakina