Thème

Code scolarité : LG20CM33
Third-year English-to-French and French-to-English translation classes will consolidate students’ reading, writing, and translation skills in both languages. While developing and reinforcing the study of translation concepts and methods, the courses will focus more particularly on writing styles and strategies. Students will translate extracts from literary works, journalism, essays, or historical documents, so as to familiarize themselves with different types of discourse and registers of language. They will also develop their ability to analyse and justify their own translations.

NB. Students are very strongly encouraged to acquire and use a unilingual English learner’s dictionary habitually and systematically (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, for example); a unilingual dictionary greatly facilitates the acquisition of vocabulary and should be the cornerstone of every student’s English studies. Students are also encouraged to read as much and as widely as possible in both English and French.
 

Comprendre le fonctionnement des langues anglaise et française ; pratiquer la traduction, c’est-à-dire reconnaître les problèmes de traduction et mettre en pratique des méthodes qui permettent de les résoudre ; contextualiser et analyser des textes et des documents ; chercher de l’information ; s’exprimer et dialoguer sur ses choix de traduction ; prendre position et construire un argument abouti.
 

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Chuquet, Hélène et Paillard, Michel, Approche linguistique des problèmes de traduction, anglais<—>français, Paris, Ophrys, 1987.
Grellet, Françoise, Initiation au thème anglais. The mirrored image, Hachette Supérieur, 1993.