Module manager: Nataliia Pavliuk
Email: n.pavliuk@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
The module will provide in-depth tools and concepts for understanding the key role of genre in communication, for exploring how genre works across cultures and for assessing how elements of genre need to be handled in translation. While the analytical focus will be on writing, examples will include also the spoken texts encountered by interpreters, web pages which undergo localization, and the films and games involved in audiovisual translation.
This module aims to provide a thorough grounding in theoretical treatments of genre, and the closely related concept of register, and how these might inform the practice and evaluation of translation.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. apply various approaches to genre and register
2. perform register analysis of texts
3. use genre and register as constructs to identify comparable texts in two languages
4. identify differences in the registers used by source and target languages in realizing a given genre
5. motivate and evaluate translation choices in reference to genre.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
6. Analytical skills to unpack nuances of language used in texts
7. Reporting and Presentation of nuanced and informed arguments in writing
8. Problem solving to fulfil a task that requires searches and evaluation of different available information and texts
9. Application of abstract theories to complex concrete cases
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 130 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Formative feedback will be given weekly at each seminar on individual contributions to discussion and tasks carried out (set at the lecture). The summative feedback on the mid-module report will also have formative value for improvement towards the final essay.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Report | 1,000 | 40 |
| Essay | 1,500 | 60 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 8/20/2024
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