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), and to develop their attitudes and skills in translating from Swedish to Italian.

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 main difficulties in translating from Swedish into Italian. The course will be held in Swedish and Italian.

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 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 combines translation theory and a practical workshop in essayistic translation from Swedish into Italian. It will employ the essay Dolda gudar (Hidden Gods) by Nils Håkonson (2021), which deals with translation theory and history, and is in Swedish.

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:

Online dictionaries at Svenska Akademiens Ordböcker https://svenska.se/

Fulvio Ferrari, “Dall’altra parte della cattedra. Sono utili i Translation Studies per la pratica della traduzione?”, in Maria Grazia Cammarota (a cura di), Tradurre: un viaggio nel tempo, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018, pp. 19-36

Nils Håkanson, Dolda gudar. En bok om allt som inte går förlorat i en översättning, Nirstedt Litteratur, 2021

The written part consists of a grammar test, an oral comprehension exercise and a composition. The translation tests (in the module) will take place during the semester and will be discussed and assessed in class
The oral part consists of an interview lasting approximately 30 minutes, discussing the parts included in the Swedish language course, and the text Dolda gudar.

Both Swedish language course and the module kept by the professor: frontal instruction and participatory learning. Both the language course and the module will use Swedish. The discussion of the translation into Italian may require the use of Italian.

If you have questions or need further explanations, please write to massimo.ciaravolo@unive.it. Please book your time with an e-mail if you want to meet the professor. Those who decide to study Swedish without attending the courses (both the Swedish language course with the mother-tongue lecturer and the professor’s module) must come and talk to us at office hours and agree upon a learning plan. Please write to annette.blomqvist@unive.it and to the professor’s address above.

written and oral

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