INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION FOR THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY AND FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES (SPANISH)

The course of Avviamento alla traduzione editoriale, settoriale spagnola becomes a compulsory subject of the Mediazione lingüística e culturale programm. The main objective is to describe the general caracteristics and specificity of the language of specialization of five areas: Public Media Spanish, Business Spanish, Legal-Administrative Spanish, Tourist Spanish and Academic Spanish.
In each of the treated areas the specific language is described in a theoretical and practical way: linguistic properties (phonetico-phonological, morphologic, syntactic and lexical), sociolinguistic and pragmatic contexts and characteristic discursive genres. Its relationship with general Spanish as well as with related languages will also be observed. The general goal is to train ELE students to translate texts in different fields.

Knowledge and understanding
- Specialized languages
- Discursive genre
- Specialized translation
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- Demonstrate communicative competence within the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference;
- Recognize the characteristics that define a discursive genre;
- Differentiate the prototypical characteristics of each specialty language at all linguistic levels (morphosyntactic, lexical, sociopragmatic);
- Establish linguistic comparisons between Spanish and Italian at all linguistic levels;
- Differentiate discursive genres within a field of specialization;
- Compare the discursive genres between Spanish and Italian;
- Translate specialized tests of different fields according to the criterion of spelling, lexical and grammatical correctness, as well as a pragmatic adaptation criterion.
Judgment skills
- Develop a critical judgment of the difficulties related to specialized translation adapted to the needs of a B2 level of Spanish.

Level B1+ of the Common European Framework of Reference

1. Text typology, languages of specialization and methods of translation.
2. Tourist Spanish (theoretical introduction, contrasting work and translation)
3. Business Spanish (theoretical introduction, contrasting work and translation)
4. Public Media Spanish (theoretical introduction, contrasting work and translation)
5. Legal-administrative Spanish (theoretical introduction, contrasting work and translation)
6. Academic Spanish (theoretical introduction, contrasting work and translation)
7. Italian-Spanish translation

- Maria Vittoria Calvi, Cristina Bordonaba Zabala, Giovanna Mapelli, Javier Santos, Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Roma: Carocci, 2009.
- Sara Robles Ávila y Jesús Sánchez Lobato, Teoría y práctica de la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español para fines específicos, Málaga: Analecta Malacitana, 2013.
- Matteo Lefèvre, La traduzione dallo spagnolo. Teoría e pratica, Roma: Carocc, 2015.
- Sara Fernández Gómiz y Zaida Núñez Bayo, Profesionales del mundo jurídico, Madrid: enClave-ELE, 2017.

Verification of learning takes place through a written test of 90 minutes which consists of a comparative analysis of a translation (Italian-Spanish). All the concepts learned during the semester will be considered in the commentary.

During the course, readings, exercises on the readings and texts to be translated will be used.
The translations proposed in the lessons will be carried out mainly from Italian into Spanish as a method to improve the student's language and communication skills in their working language.
Explanations from the professor will alternate with the student's self-employment (blended learning methodology).

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