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Basics of Translation

Type: For the student's choice

Department: translation studies and contrastive linguistics named after hryhoriy kochur

Curriculum

SemesterCreditsReporting
53Setoff

Practical

SemesterAmount of hoursGroupTeacher(s)
532Associate Professor Yulia Nanyak

Course description

The goal of this course is to develop professional thinking, as well as to familiarize students with the basics of translation.
The ways of overcoming many lexical, lexico-grammatical, and semantic difficulties in professional texts translation are discussed. Different types of transformations in the translation of scientific texts from English into Ukrainian are also the object of consideration.
As a result of this course, the students are to know different approaches to the translation performance; independently expand and apply theoretical knowledge and practical skills.

Recommended Literature

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  3. Serban A. Introduction to Audiovisual Translation / А. Serban. [Electronic resource]. – Available from: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/llp/exhibits/16/IntroAVTranslation_Adriana_Serban.ppt
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