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. General teaching objectives are twofold: 1) to know the basics of translation studies and the profession of translator and language mediator; and 2) to describe the characterizing properties of the Spanish sectorial language with emphasis on four specialized areas: academic and scientific discourse; discourse in advertising and media; economic discourse; legal-administrative discourse; and tourism.
The first part of the course focuses on providing students with the basics of translation, such as types of translation, translation errors and problems, methods, strategies and techniques. Fort he second part, in each of the treated areas the specific language is described in a theoretical and practical way: linguistic properties (syntactic and lexical, textual and discorsive), sociolinguistic and pragmatic contexts and characteristic discursive genres. Its relationship with general Spanish will also be observed. The course is aimed at introducing students to the translation of the sectorial languages of Spanish and enabling them to become acquainted with variations in written-oral, formal-informal register. In addition, the student should become aware of the factors that condition the translator's decisions.

Knowledge and understanding
- Profession of the translator and language mediator
- Text analysis
- Specialized languages
- Discursive genre
- Linguistic mediation
- Specialized translation
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- Demonstrate communicative competence within the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference;
- Identify the guidelines on which the translator can base his or her choices;
- Recognize the characteristics that define a discursive genre;
- Differentiate the prototypical characteristics of each specialty language at all linguistic levels (morphosyntactic, lexical, sociopragmatic);
- Translate short specialized texts of different fields.
- Produce language mediation of multimodal texts according to the criteria defined in the CEFR 2018 Supplementary Volume
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. Definition of translation, resources and function of the translator as a linguistic mediator
2. Classification of types of translations and methods of translation
3. Ethics of the translator and ISO Standard 17100
4. Problems and errors in translation
5. Translation process and translator competence
6. Translation techniques
7. Microlanguages or languages of specialization
8. Lexical and semantic neology
9. Textual analysis, language acts, text typology and discursive genres
10. Spanish in media and advertising (theoretical notions and translation exercises)
11. Scientific-academic Spanish (theoretical notions and translation exercises)
12. Economic Spanish (theoretical notions and graphic mediation exercises)
13. Legal-administrative Spanish (theoretical notions and language mediation exercises)
a. Project for the modernization of legal discourse.
b. Legal language: how it tends to be and how it should be.

- Amparo Hurtado Albir. Traducción y traductología. Introducción a la traductología, Barcelona: Cátedra, 2001.
- Maria Vittoria Calvi, Cristina Bordonaba Zabala, Giovanna Mapelli, Javier Santos, Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Roma: Carocci, 2009.
- Estrella Montolío. Hacia la modernización del discurso jurídico, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2012.
- Matteo Lefèvre, La traduzione dallo spagnolo. Teoria e pratica, Roma: Carocc, 2015.

Verification of learning will take place through a 120-minute written test consisting of two parts: 1) Theoretical questions on the topics presented during the course; 2) Translation test of a semi-specialist text of about 300 words.
Participation/collaboration during classes can be evaluated positively even if it does not represent a specific percentage of the final grade.

written

Theoretical classes.
Moodle platform for independent student work.
Seminar: Lecturer provides reference texts to be read independently and discussed in class.
Lab: Reverse translation and written mediation activities to develop Spanish language proficiency.
Oral presentations by students.