ETI 360 | Course Introduction and Application Information - Department of English Translation and Interpreting

Course Name

Pragmatics and Translation

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
ETI 360	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	6

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	face to face
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Q&A Critical feedback Lecture / Presentation
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. Nihal YETKİN KARAKOÇ
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives	Primary aim of this course is to develop an awareness of the pragmatic dimensions of translation by studying texts that are rich in pragmatic elements.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; study pragmatic processes and concepts such as speech acts, implicatures, inferences and context; analyze pragmatic elements of a text in English; analyze pragmatic elements of a text in Turkish; determine translation methods based on pragmatic concepts and theories; identify and find solutions for the problems caused by the pragmatic failures in source and target texts.
Course Description	This course treats the art of translation from the dual perspectives of theory and practice. We shall look at various theoretical issues that impact on the choices translators make, and spend much of class time practicing various translation strategies and honing particular techniques.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses	X
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Introduction A. Preliminaries and syllabus reading B. What is the scope of pragmatics? The relation between pragmatics and translation.
2	Primary topics in pragmatics I. Speech act theory, Translation Implicatures and Cooperative Principles, Some translation problems	Selected Texts Mey, Jacob L. (1993) Chap 6&7 in Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell (2nd ed. 2001). 109-149
3	Primary topics in pragmatics II. Context Politeness Theory, Some translation problems	Mey, Jacob L. (1993) Chap 9 in Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell (2nd ed. 2001). 181-189
4	Intersection points of Pragmatics and Translation Studies, Interpretation process, Evaluation process	Selected Texts
5	Pragmatic Equivalence, Pragmatic Strategies	Chesterman, A. (1997). Chap 4 in Memes of Translation: The Spread of Ideas in Translation Theory, Amsterdam/Philadelphia : J. Benjamins 107-112
6	Communicative Competence Pragmatic competence	Selected Texts
7	Midterm Exam
8	Presentations
9	Presentations
10	Sociopragmatic failures, Pragmalinguistic failures in Translation Studies	Selected Texts
11	Functional pragmatic TQA An application	House, J. (2014). Chap 4 in Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present. Routledge. 36-49
12	Relevance Theory and Translation	Selected Texts
13	Discussion of students’ essays I
14	Discussion of students’ essays II
15	Semester review
16	Final Exam - Project Due

Course Notes/Textbooks

Suggested Readings/Materials

Chesterman, A. (1997): Memes of translation: The Spread of Ideas in Translation Theory, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. ISBN-13: 978-9027216250

https://translationjournal.net/January-2015/a-translation-quality-assessment-of-two-english-translations-of-naz-m-hikmet-s-poetry.html

Kansu Yetkiner, N (2009). Çeviribilim Edimbilim İlişkisi Üzerine, İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İzmir ISBN 978-975-8789-33-7

Kasper, G. and S. Blum Kulka (eds.) (1993) Interlanguage Pragmatics. New York:Oxford University Press. ISBN13: 9780195066029

Thomas, J. (1983). Cross-cultural pragmatic failure. Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 91112.

Mey, Jacob L. (1993) Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell (2nd ed. 2001). ISBN-10: 0415446678

Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 13: 9780521294140

Wierzbicka, Anna (1991) Cross-cultural Pragmatics. The Semantics of Human Interaction. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN-13: 978-3110177695

House, J. (2014). Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-79547-1

Gutt, E. 1991. Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context. Oxford: Blackwell.

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	20
Presentation / Jury	1	10
Project	1	30
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm	1	40
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	4	100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	1	15	15
Presentation / Jury	1	10	10
Project	1	25	25
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms	1	40	40
Final Exam			0
		Total	180

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired,	-	X	-	-	-
2	To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods,	-	-	-	-	-
3	To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages,	-	-	-	-	-
4	To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production,	-	-	-	X	-
5	To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language,	-	-	-	-	-
6	To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired,	-	-	-	X	-
7	To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act,	-	-	-	-	X
8	To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields,	-	-	-	-	-
9	To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work,	-	-	-	-	-
10	To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources,	-	-	-	-	-
11	To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level,	-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.	-	-	-	-	-