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Laurea magistrale in Lingue per la comunicazione turistica e commerciale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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CURRICULUM TIPO:
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Further language skills
6
F
-
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Project work or stage
9
F
-

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Teaching code

4S002973

Coordinator

Peggy Katelhoen

Credits

9

Language

German de

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/14 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - GERMAN

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 13, 2023 al May 27, 2023.

Learning objectives

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to: - recognize translation relevant text typologies; - analyse text types from the point of view of translation; - demonstrate knowledge about text specific translation problems; - solve translation problems occurring in the German-Italian and Italian-German translations of texts related to tourism and commerce; - produce target texts which are coherent with the text function and audience, on the basis of small translation assignment (German-Italian).

Prerequisites and basic notions

Excellent knowledge of the Italian language
A C1 language proficiency in German is required.

Program

The course will deal with the special language of tourism from a theoretical and practical point of view, also from a contrastive perspective with Italian. The lessons also introduce specialised translation and mediation in the professional field of tourism.
Topics of the theoretical lessons
-Special languages: designations, definitions and characteristics
- The language of tourism
- textual genres of tourism
-The translation process
- Mediation in the professional field of tourism
- Elements of contrastive linguistics for the Italian and German languages

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Lectures alternated with seminar activities (pair and group work, oral presentations)