Learning outcomes

To master the basic paradigm of professional writing by using parallel text alignment. To recognise the text type characteristics that are relevant to translating and to become familiar with the German culture of written communication and its mediums.

Contents

Basics of professional written communication. Communicative and culture-contrastive text analysis. Production of the most essential text types from a translation viewpoint.

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by written examination and exercises.

Recommended year of study

1. year spring

Study materials

A collection of articles, or: Kadric, M., Kaindl, K. & Kaiser-Cooke, M. 2005. Translatorische Methodik. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8.

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