Spanish Language for special purposes and translation

Knowledge and Understanding Skills: The course aims to achieve a solid and in-depth acquisition of linguistic, communicative, and metalinguistic knowledge and skills, corresponding to levels B2-C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. According to this criterion, students will need to demonstrate their ability to comprehend and translate complex texts on concrete, abstract, and specialized topics, capturing the implicit cultural aspects. They will also approach the study of sectorial languages.

Application of Knowledge and Understanding Skills: Students will be able to appropriately translate, substantiating their translational choices based on the methodological approaches used and applied in the source text and their rendering in the target text.

Autonomy of Judgment: Students will be capable of navigating within the context of sectoral micro-languages. They will be able to consult dictionaries and online materials with a critical mindset, recognize translation issues and errors, and assess the quality of the translated text.

Communicative Skills: The fundamental goal will be to convey communication in a specific communicative context. To achieve this, students will be provided with the specific terminology of certain specialized fields necessary for expressing themselves and interacting effectively, using polished language and a structured, articulate, and appropriate form.

Learning Skills: Students will develop a set of cognitive strategies useful for adopting an effective study and learning method, as well as practical skills in specialized translation applicable in the workplace and professional context.

The course aims to provide an overview of specialized communication in the Spanish language. The first part will focus on theoretical and methodological aspects of translation, addressing specific issues related to Spanish-Italian translation through the territories of contrastive linguistics and translation between closely related languages. Subsequently, there will be a reflection on sector-specific languages. After a theoretical introduction to the peculiarities of specialized communication, the course will concentrate on the analysis of communicative codes in opinion journalism (the columna), in sport, the tourism sector, and advertising. The analysis will consider both lexical and textual/pragmatic aspects. Finally, the course will approach, from both a theoretical and practical standpoint, the main characteristics of linguistic mediation between Spanish and Italian.

- Lefèvre, Matteo, La traduzione dallo spagnolo. Teoria e pratica, Carocci, Roma, 2016 (capp. 1, 2 3; 75 pagg.)

- Trovato, Giuseppe, El comentario lingüístico-traductológico entre lenguas tipológicamente afines, Editorial Comares, Editorial Comares, Granada, 2022 (capp. 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 12; 37 pagg.)

- Calvi, Bordonaba Zabalza, Mapelli, Santos López, Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Carocci, Roma, 2023 (capp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9; 130 pagg.)

- AA. VV., Lenguaje publicitario. La seducción permanente. Ariel, Barcellona, 2005 (230 pagg.)

- Marimón Llorca, Carmen, Análisis de textos en español, Universidad de Alicante, 2008 (130 pagg.)

- Guerrero Salazar, Susana, El lenguaje deportivo, entre coloquial y literario. 2002 (16 pagg.)

-  Consejo de Europa. (2020): Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las lenguas: aprendizaje, enseñanza, evaluación. Volumen Complementario. Instituto Cervantes y Anaya.   https://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/marco_complementario/mcer_volumen-complementario.pdf

For the language-classes:

María Pilar Garcés, La oración compuesta en español. Estructuras y nexos. Editorial Verbum, 1994

D. Gálvez-N. Gálvez-L. Quintana, Dominio Curso de perfeccionamiento, Nivel C, Edelsa. 2016

Marisa de Prada-Dárica Salazar, Uso interactivo del vocabulario Nivel  B2-C2, Edelsa

María Dolores Martínez-Isabel Ordeig, Las expresiones coloquiales. SGEL

The student will choose a novel from the following list, which they will read in Spanish and in Italian translation for the purpose of a comentario lingüístico-traductológico:

Tu rostro mañana, Javier Marías

Las tres bodas de Manolita, Almudena Grandes

Farándula, Marta Sanz

Los recuerdos del porvenir, Elena Garro

A corazón abierto, Elvira lindo

El sibido del arquero, Irene Vallejo

La mujer habitada, Gioconda Belli

La chica de nieve, Javier Castillo,

La presidenta, Alicia Giménez Bartlett

La ciudad de los prodigios, Eduardo Mendoza

El balcón en invierno, Luis Landero

El invierno en Lisboa, Antonio Muñoz Molina

Elogio de la madrastra, Mario Vargas Llosa

Anatomía de un instante, Javier Cercas

Rabos de lagartija, Juan Marsé

Nubosidad variable, Carmen Martín Gaite

Primera memoria, Ana María Matute

La familia, Sara Mesa

Las maravillas, Elena Medel

La educación física, Rosario Villajos

Los ojos cerrados, Edurne Portela

Humo, José Ovejero

Hijos de la fábula, Fernando Aramburu

Cometierra, Dolores Reyes

Bibliografia complementare (facoltativa)

- Solsona Martínez, Carmen, La traducción como herramienta. Español para italófonos, CLUEB, Bologna, 2011

- San Vicente, Bazzocchi, LETI Lengua española para traducir e interpretar, CLUEB, Bologna, 2021

- Gómez de Enterría Sánchez, Josefa, El español lengua de especialidad: enseñanza y aprendizaje, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2009

- Aguirre Beltrán, Blanca, Aprendizaje y enseñanza de español con fines específicos, SGEL, Madrid, 2012

- Alessandra, Sonia Liboria, Scrittura e traduzione. Visibilità e invisibilità del traduttore, in Rivista Internazionale di Studi Culturali, Linguistici e Letterari «AGON» (ISSN 2384-9045), n. 18, luglio-settembre 2018.

http://portale.unime.it/agon/files/2018/10/1805.pdf 

Note: During the exam, students must have all the required texts, novels and critical bibliography.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).