SWEDISH LANGUAGE - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION

Swedish Language for MA is offered at the first year of the MA-programme in Language Sciences (Scienze del Linguaggio) and at the first and second year of the MA-programme in European, American and Postcolonial Language to the students who choose Swedish as their language/literature of specialization at this level. Swedish language for MA is not included in the MA-programme in Comparative International Relations, but it is open, as a freely chosen subject, to the students attending this programme, who have previously studied Scandinavian languages, culture and literature at BA-level.

Swedish language teaching consists of a one-year practical language course (two semesters) kept by the lecturer, and of a theoretical module (one semester) kept by the professor. It aims to develop the students’ skills up to level C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR).

Knowing and learning to understand: knowledge at an high level of Swedish phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, of sociolinguistic, stilistic and pragmatic use of language.
The theoretical module will focus on the world of literary translation, and in particular will delve into the main difficulties in translating from Swedish into Italian. The course will be held in Swedish.

Applied knowledge and learning to understand: improving reading and listening comprehension with the help of authentic material; increasing oral production and improvisation; increasing written production through summaries, compositions and short essays; recognizing contexts and registers in the production of texts.

Independent assessment: learning to express an opinion and develop an oral or written argument in a clearly articulated and effective way; learning to interact using Swedish in the classroom.

Communicative skills: the aim is to reach level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages as for written comprehension and production, oral understanding, production and interaction. As well as this, the aim is to develop an independent use of language, in order to understand and produce complex texts.

Learning to learn: acquiring autonomy in the learning process through the materials proposed by the teachers as well as through one’s own sources; developing the attitude to self-assessment and reinforcing the acquired abilities.

Level B2 of the ECFR, reached by passing the tests of Swedish Language 3.
The course is supposed to be held partially in Swedish, as it is addressed to former students of Scandinavian studies at BA-level. Swedish texts in the original language will be used.

Swedish Language 1, kept by the Swedish mother-tongue lecturer ("CEL"), starts at the beginning of the academic year and lasts two semesters, whereas the module kept by Sara Culeddu takes place in the second semester only.

Swedish language course:
Use of prepositions, phrasal verbs (partikelverb), irregular verbs, transitive/intransitive verbs, order of words in the sentence, coordination or parataxis, tense consistency, relative sentences, särskrivning (compound words and connecting morphemes), defective adjectives, definite/indefinite adjectives, singular/plural adjectives, predicate adjectives and grammatical consistency; complex orthography and punctuation (Svenska skriveregler); writing and analysing texts, essays and reportages.

Theoretical module:
The module consists of two main parts: the first one is on translation theory and the history of reception of Scandinavian literature in Italy; the second one is a practical workshop in literary translation from Swedish into Italian.

Swedish language course:
- Rivstart B2+C1 Textbok (kapitel 5 framåt) och Rivstart B2+C1 Övningsbok (Levy Scherrer, Lindemalm 2017),
- material på Moodle: muntliga diskussionsövningar, hörförståelse om aktuella ämnen och artiklar om språkfrågor (PowerPointer)
- utdrag ur Språkriktighetsboken (Svenska språknämnden 2005), Funktionell grammatik (Bolander 2012), Konsten att tala och skriva (Strömquist 2018I), Form i fokus C (Fasth, Kannermark 1998). I listan nedan avses främst övningar och teoriblad ur Övningsboken (kapitel 6–12 framåt).
- nätversionen av Svenska Akademiens grammatik (SAG).

Theoretical module:
Papers uploaded on Moodle by the professor.

The examination consists of a book review, a written test and an oral interview.
The written part consists of a grammar test, an oral comprehension exercise and a composition.
The oral part consists of an interview lasting approximately 30 minutes and will focus on the presentation of the book chosen for the book review.

The course offers partly frontal lectures about translation and reception theories and partly a practical workshop in literary translation from Swedish into Italian.
The course is held in Swedish for the theoretical part, and in Swedish and Italian for the practical workshop.

If you have questions or need further explanations, please write to alessandra.panfilo@unive.it. Booking time with an e-mail is requested if you want to meet the professor (online meetings are also available). Office hours: Tuesdays 2.30-4.30pm. Students who cannot attend the course must contact the teacher in order to discuss the syllabus.

written and oral