Political & Economic Translation

Description

- Describe general features of political and economic discourse. - Identify the basic linguistic features of political and economic texts. - Identify basic linguistic features of political texts: Speech Acts, intertextuality, pronouns, nominalization, passivization - Understand the strategic functions of linguistic choices made by text producers. - State the differences and similarities between the ST and the TT in terms of rendering strategic functions. - Conduct a survey of Arabic terms and expressions and their English equivalents of political & economic bodies and entities. - Classify mechanisms used by political translators - Produce condensed equivalent structures - Compare syntactic structures (Arabic & English) - Differentiate between the different types of strategic functions - Select the strategic function of each linguistic choice - Produce appropriate structural patterns in different economic and political contexts - Analyze translated texts to decide whether or not the translated texts render the same political message, ideologies and strategic functions of the ST - Interpret the strategic functions of the linguistic choices made by text producers - Identify the strategic functions of the linguistic choices made by text producers. - Translate English-Arabic texts.

Program

Language & Translation Department

Objectives

• The aim of this course is to introduce issues in translating economic and political texts from English into Arabic and vice versa. The texts used are excerpts of books and articles that treat relevant subjects in order to teach the respective terminology of political and economic texts. Therefore, the aim of this course is to train students to decode political and economic texts and to develop the skill of translating, helping future translators to transfer the text correctly from the source-language to the target-language.