The aim of the course is to broaden the horizons of students in matters related to Translation and Culture. We study the act of translation as a socio-cultural activity, which is potentially able to influence the target society, having always in mind that the translation process never takes place in isolation from its situational context, but it is involved in a dynamic process of interaction with other aspects of society.
More specifically, the course seeks the systematic study and interpretation of the translation process in the set of material and spiritual values and achievements of man over the years. Translations are studied alongside their social, historical, and cultural components, as they are placed within the cultural, historical, political, and literary system in which they operate. We move away from the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s regarding the issue of equivalence, and study variations according to the historical and cultural context in which the translation belongs. In addition, the course intends to investigate the role of translations as a vehicle for the circulation of ideas and to highlight their importance in society as a whole through concepts such as language planning, national language and culture.
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
Week 1: Relationship between Culture and the Science of Translation
Week 2: Translation as a phenomenon, its relationship with literature, society, and culture
Week 3: Translation as a process and the study of the relationship it establishes between literatures and cultures. Translation as a tool of intercultural communication
Week 4: The development of the programmatic design of the translation strategy on the part of the competent translator in the context of the translation of specific works in specific times
Week 5: Analysis and understanding of different cultures and their interactions Cultural specificities of linguistic evidence. Issues of synchrony and diachrony
Week 6: Understanding the role of Translation in shaping values, practices, beliefs, and behaviors and how it interacts with the social, political, economic and historical context
Week 7: Search and evaluation of original texts and their translations for material extraction
Week 8: Critical thinking, cultural exchange, feedback, cultural inequalities, transformations, and changes occurring in culture over time: the case of Greece
Week 9: Study of translated literature as part of the cultural, literary, and historical system of the target language. The case study of Modern Greek in its birth
Week 10: Review of Descriptive Translation Studies as a non-normative means to understand how norms act in the translation process, but also to delineate the general norms of the translation process
Week 11: Study of equivalence within the historical-functional framework. Correlation with the continuum of “acceptability” and “adequacy” in the light of Descriptive Translation Studies
Week 12: Post-colonial translation theories: the active role of translation in the colonial process and in the image of the colonized
Week 13: The role of gender in Translation: The feminist approach
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Face-to-face.
Lectures: use of multimedia (PowerPoint presentations).
During the semester, invited academics and professionals from Greece and abroad deliver lectures on specific topics.
Support of the learning process through the e-class platform
Course material upload (notes, lecture slides, exercises, etc.) onto the e-class platform.
Individual, final, written assignment:
