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German linguistics and translation

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: BEATE ANNA BAUMANN

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with receptive and productive language skills in order to achieve the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages C1 level. The course is designed for students to develop a specific linguistic, cultural and symbolic competence with particular reference to stylistic and textual analysis and translation of texts belonging to intercultural literature.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students will be able to understand complex, long texts and construct their implicit meaning; to produce clear, well-constructed, detailed texts on complex topics, showing confident control of text structure, connectors and cohesive elements; to translate complex texts, taking into account in particular the equivalence of their aesthetic effect; to express themselves fluently and naturally, using the language flexibly and effectively for social and academic purposes; to handle, through a contrastive approach, not only the German language, but also Italian autonomously and critically, in order to develop a solid linguistic awareness.

Course Structure

Frontal teaching, group work and presentations.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

The course will focus on the acquisition of specific skills related to issues of multilingualism. They include 1) working on a project on linguistic landscapes and the role of the German language, 2) linguistic and stylistic analysis of literary texts and the translation of them. Students will learn practical methods, based on the principles of comparative methodology, to analyse transcultural literature texts. These texts are particularly useful to identify stylistic choices and develop appropriate translation strategies in order to achieve a stylistic/textual, symbolic and intercultural competence.

Textbook Information

Linguistic skills and competences level C1:

U. Koithan, H. Schmitz, T. Sieber, R. Sonntag, Aspekte neu. Mittelstufe Deutsch C1. Lehrbuch, Stuttgart, Klett, 2017, 208 pp. (ISBN 978-3-12-605035-7)

U. Koithan, H. Schmitz, T. Sieber, R. Sonntag, Aspekte neu. Mittelstufe Deutsch C1. Arbeitsbuch mit Audio-CD, Stuttgart, Klett, 2017, 184 pp.

(ISBN 978-3-12-605036-4)

 

Dictionary German Language:

Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch. Stuttgart, Langenscheidt, 2015.

 

Dictionary Italian – German:

L. Giacoma and S. Kolb (eds), Il nuovo dizionario di tedesco. Dizionario Tedesco-Italiano Italienisch-Deutsch, second edition, with CD-Rom, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2014.

 

Linguistic Landscapes

Camilla Badstübner-Kizik (2022): Die Linguistic Landscape als mehrsprachige didaktische Ressource. In: Edina Krompak, Vincenzo Todisco (Hrsg.): Sprache und Raum = Language and space: Mehrsprachigkeit in der Bildungsforschung und in der Schule, Bern, hep verlag, pp. 233-261.

 

Textual stylistic and translation

- U. Fix, H. Poethe, G. Yos, Textlinguistik und Stilistik für Einsteiger. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Frankfurt am Main u.a., Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 47-72;

- M. Foschi Albert, Il profilo stilistico del testo. Guida al confronto intertestuale e interculturale (tedesco e italiano), Pisa, Edizioni Plus, 2009, pp. 85-147;

- L. Cinato Kather, Mediazione linguistica tedesco-italiano, Milano, Hoepli, 2011, 85-98. (Parte seconda: Confronti linguistici e strategie traduttive).

- B. Ivančić, Manuale del traduttore, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2016, pp. 63-81.

 

Plurilinguism and literary creativity

- B. Baumann, Multi, inter oder trans? Zum Wandel des Kulturkonzeptes in den heutigen Gesellschaften und den Auswirkungen auf den Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache, in M. Bürger-Koftis, R. Pellegrino, S. Vlasta (a cura di), Wokommstduher? Inter-, Multi- und Transkulturalität Mehrsprachigkeit im österreichischen Kontext, Wien, Praesens, 2018, pp. 3-25.

- C. Chiellino, Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2007, pp. 51-62;

- M. Hofmann, J. K. Patrut, Einführung in die interkulturelle Literatur, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2015, pp. 63-83;

- E.-M. Thüne, S. Leonardi (a cura di), I colori sotto la mia lingua: Scritture transculturali in tedesco (LisT, 1), Roma, Aracne, 2009, pp. 9-40.

- Reader with literary texts of various authors (15 pp. overall, available on STUDIUM)

 

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).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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