Students need to have a C1 level of English, both in writing and speaking. This will be verified during the course and prior to accessing the final translation exam.

Knowledge of translation techniques is also encouraged and favored, as this course aims to provide highly specialized competences. 

Communication and intercultural strategies and knowledge are also important.

The course aims to offer students specialized tools and strategies for the analysis, comprehension and transfer of texts expressing ideology in various ways.

Students will be guided into the deep analysis of different types of texts, prior to embarking on their translation from and into English.

Theoretical, methodological and practical competences are at the core of this course.

Translation for international communication is dense with ideology and the expression thereof. This course focuses on the linguistic expression of ideology in international communication and translation. Concentrating on specific thematic areas (religion, politics, postcolonialism and cultural rights), the course aims to give students the analytical tools to identify, understand and appropriately convey ideology in international communication.

The texts that will be used are taken from the international printed press, from books and essays, news reports, podcasts and other video footage.

The books are essential, they will be analysed extensively during the course.

(A) E. BIELSA The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media. Routledge, London/New York, 2022

(C) G. DELANTY The Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies. Routledge, London/New York, 2012.

(C) E. DI GIOVANNI, R. M. BOLLETTIERI Oltre l'Occidente. Traduzione e alterità culturale. Bompiani, Milano, 2009

(C) M. TYMOCZKO Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators. St Jerome, Manchester, UK, 2007

(C) J. MUNDAY Translation as Intervention. Continuum, London, UK, 2007

(C) M. CALZADA PEREZ Apropos of ideology. Translation studies on ideology - Ideology in translation studies. St Jerome, Manchester, UK, 2003

(C) L. VENUTI Translation changes everything. Routledge, London/New York, 2013

(C) Klaus Bruhn Jensen A Handbook of Media and Communication Research. Routledge, London/New York, 2012

Class attendance and participation in the critical and translational activities is strongly recommended.

• The course features lectures and workshops. The latter will have the students prepare to analyse and comment on selected readings, either by working alone or in groups. Students will also be asked to prepare power point presentations and mini lectures.

• The course features mid-term self evaluation as a tool to elicit awareness in the students.

  The final evaluation consists of two parts: a writing test, aiming to evaluate a C1 knowledge of English, and a final exam consisting of a translation from and into English and a question based on the readings done during the course.

English