Translation Italian/English

Dott. John Gilbert

Group 1 Tuesdays 11-13 Room 007 vSR  Group 2 Tuesdays 15-17 Room 007 vSR

Office Hours Wednesday 11-13 Room 207 vSR  N.B. Until the coronavirus crisis is over, you can contact me by email at john.gilbert@unifi.it during my office hours, or at any other time that is convenient for you.

N.B. Every week I will send an invitation to your Unifi.it address to participate in my Tuesday lessons 11-13. or 15-17.  on G Suite "Meet." The recordings of my weekly lessons are posted on my Unifi G Suite Drive which I have given you authorization to access. If you have any problems, please contact at me john.gilbert@unifi.it

All material is available at Copisteria X, via San Gallo 92r.

This is a full-year course (both semesters) and will be organized primarily as a practical workshop dealing with the translation from Italian into English of different text types, focusing mainly on non-narrative academic and journalistic texts as well as some narrative texts. Particular attention will be given to translation strategies based on contrastive grammatical analysis, lexical choice and the use of language corpora, dictionary usage, questions of style, and the concepts of equivalence and cultural untranslatability. There is no textbook. Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries are required and should be brought to class (in paper or electronic form). Exercises and texts for translation will be sent to students by email and also made available at Copisteria X in Via San Gallo 72r. There will be a written midterm exam at the end of the first semester and a final written exam at the end of the course, both consisting of a passage to translate. Passing the midterm exam is necessary before being able to do the final exam.