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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Chinese Economic Translation
Module Code ZH401 (ITS) / CHN1012 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School SALIS
Module Co-ordinatorQi Zhang
Module TeachersAgnes Maillot
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
None
Description

The purpose of this module is to develop students’ ability to translate semi-specialised Chinese texts, and to deepen the understanding of China’s economic environment by discussing relevant texts and commonly techniques in translation. Students will build their own glossaries for terminology, and be able to identify the textual features and determine the strategy for translation.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the source language expression and locate the equivalent target language to translate semi-specialised texts.
2. Choose a translation strategy that is appropriate to the purpose of the text, the translation brief, or other contextual factors in a translation assignment.
3. Employ terminological and domain knowledge that is suitable for use in semi-specialised economic texts and in a particular translation assignments.
4. Produce translations suitable for semi-specialised, economic texts, considering text cohesion and text presentation (typing, spelling, grammar, etc.).
5. Study the quality and strategies employed in existing Chinese-English translations.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture20Synchronous timetabled sessions
Independent Study80Synchronous and asynchronous group work/study for class preparation, reviewing content delivered synchronously (slides, translation examples, etc.), directed learning (e.g. post-editing, translation practice and directed discussions).
Assignment Completion5Critique of post-editing
Assignment Completion5Translation 1
Assignment Completion5Translation 2
Assignment Completion10Reflective log
Total Workload: 125

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Content
• Practical translation examples • Substitutions, omissions and additions in translation • Translation theory and practice • The importance of background research • Translation quality assessment in practice • Translating proper nouns appropriately • Domain-specific knowledge (for example, about international trade, economic reforms, product information, econometrics, legal compliance, economic contracts, taxation and tax exemption, etc.)

Indicative Learning Activities
• Completing short quizzes, cloze or glossary-matching exercises • Building and maintaining a bilingual glossary of specialised language • Comparing published target texts with published source texts, or comparing different machine translation outputs • Producing translations in line with specific translation beliefs • Maintaining a reflective log to consider translation choices made and translation competences encountered in the module

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Reflective journal1000 words40%n/a
Assignment5 Post-editings10%n/a
AssignmentCritique of post-editing10%n/a
AssignmentTranslation 1 (300 words)20%n/a
AssignmentTranslation 2 (300 words)20%n/a
Indicative Reading List

  • Baker, Mona: 1992, In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, Routledge, London,
  • Eoyang, Eugene Chen: 1993, The Transparent Eye: Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu,
  • Cheung, Martha P. Y.: 2009, Chinese Discourses on Translation: Positions and Perspectives,, St. Jerome Publishing, Manchester,
  • Hung, Eva: 2005, Translation and Cultural Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,
  • CHEN Hongwei: 2018, A Coursebook on Chinese-English Translation, 1, 978-7-5446-55
Other Resources

None

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