SPECIALIZED TRANSLATION FOR TOURISM, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION (ENGLISH)

The course "Specialised Translation for Tourism, Accessibility and Inclusion - English" is one of the core subjects of the Master's Degree Course in Interpreting and Publishing Translation and is positioned in the 2nd year of the course. Exceptionally, the course may also be taken by students in the 1st year of the a.y. 2022/23, with an English proficiency already well advanced towards C2. The course will accompany students in the acquisition of knowledge and skills pertaining to the specialised use of the English language through translation methodologies. The teaching consists of a 30-hour semester module and 25 compulsory hours of language exercises to supplement the teaching of the official module in order to consolidate acquired knowledge in practice and to carry out practical exercises in small groups. In fact, the exercises are intended as an integral part of the final profit examination. The overall teaching objective is the learning and applied use of specialised translation in the field of tourism from an English/Italian contrastive perspective and, in addition, the acquisition of semi-professional skills in the revision of written text in English.

At the end of the course, students will be able to understand and produce specialised texts in the field of tourism in Italian and in English at a C2 CEFR level; they will also be able to revise tourism texts from and in English; they will have attained the communicative skills that will enable them to recognise and explain the translation strategies used; they will be able to apply the terminology of linguistics and translation to motivate their translation choices and illustrate them in class.
They will also be able to process and study the material provided by the teacher in the course of the course with a good level of autonomy and good self-assessment skills with respect to the acquisition of metalinguistic content and their competence in English.

Pre-requisites of this course are an advanced level C1+/C2 of the QCER and an excellent competence of their native language, usually Italian. A level of autonomy in the study method already acquired and a substantial cultural background will favour a more rapid acquisition of the skills taught in the course.

The six-month module aims to transmit and consolidate the following contents:
1. Study of the textual typology of the tourist text in Italian and English.
2.Stylistic and textual aspects of the tourist text in contrastive perspective.
3. Revision and reformulation activities of tourist texts in English.
As far as the exercises are concerned, they will focus on the realisation of a tourist text pathway created ad hoc for a specific type of visitor (CEFR level C2).

Texts, articles and written material will be provided on the moodle course linked with the lessons (password will be provided).
- Munday, Jeremy. 2016. Introducing Translation Studies. 4th ed. London: Routledge
-Mirella Agorni, Translating for Progress, Milano: EDUCatt, 2016, ISBN: 978-88-6780-941-7
- Giacomo Benelli et al., The Illustrated Survival Guide, Translators, Maurizio Corraini Editore, 2020, ISBN 978-88-7570-855-6

The examination consists of a written test that will take the form of individual and/or group work in the field of translation or a revision of a specialised translation in the tourism sector written in English. This work will be coordinated during the practical "esercitazioni" hours.

Lessons will be in English and in Italian with both lectures and interactive activities.

English

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development