CJQ039 Translation Seminar for students of Czech language as a forein language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Zuzana Muchová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
CJQ006 Qualifying Exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
An optional seminar designed for those interested in creative translation of different genres and text functions from Czech and into Czech. The main stress will be laid on work with Czech texts. The participants will be working mainly with examples of journalistic, literary and commercial texts that will demonstrate the variety of problems and will enable to try different solutions in translating problematic features.
Syllabus
  • The seminar will concentrate on these themes: function of the target text; sociocultural context of journalistic; slang in the language of youths; foreign languages in text and words of foreign origin; graphical lookout and illustrations; quotations. Participants to the course will try to master different techniques of creating and optimitzing the text: creating compositions in the target language, brainstorming, brainwriting a clustering in translating; imaginative word-formation; scenic solutions in translation; translating in pairs and in collective.
Literature
  • Snell-Hornby, Mary et. al. (eds): Handbuch Translation. 2. A. Stauffenbur Verlag Tübingen 1999. ISBN 3-86057-992-4
  • Kufnerová, Z. - Skoumalová, Z. (eds): Překládání a čeština. 1. vyd. H+H Jinočany 1994. 262 s. ISBN 80-85787-14-8
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Po absolvování zkoušky z Překladatelského semináře pro studenty češtiny jako cizího jazyka si student může vybrat dle svého mateřského jazyka další překladatelské semináře z nabídky povinně volitelných předmětů filologických kateder FF MU.
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