GERMAN LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 3

The course lasts the whole year and aims to develop linguistic, communicative and cultural skills, as they are defined in the European portfolio, level B2/C1. Both the lessons and in the practical workshops will be focussed on the improvement of:

- linguistic and grammatical skills,

- the vocabulary and the communicative skills,

- general and detailed reading comprehension,

- text analysis,

- interpretation and translation of different kind of written texts.

A) Language and communication skills.

B) Elements of text-linguistics and translation.

A) Language and communication skills

Everlasting tools for the language:

Choose one of the following grammar texts:

- H. Weinrich, Textgrammatik der deutschen Sprache, 4. Auflage, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2007.

- AA.VV., Duden 04. Die Grammatik, 8. Auflage, Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim 2009.

 

Dictionary:

- Il nuovo dizionario di tedesco, dizionario con cd-rom, a cura di L. Giacoma e S. Kolb, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009.

 

Choose one of the following Vocabularies:

- Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch, 8. Auflage, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2006.

- Großwörterbuch. Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Langenscheidt, Berlin-München-Wien-Zürich-New York 2010.

- Duden. Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2006

 

The mother tongue lectors will provide further instructions for the tools to

be used during the practical laboratories.

 

B) Elements of text-linguistics and translation

Readers:

- Klaus Brinker, Linguistische Textanalyse, Schmidt, Berlin 2001.

- Lucia Cinato Kather, Mediazione linguistica tedesco-italiano, Hoepli, Milano 2011.

- C. Di Meola, La linguistica tedesca. Un’introduzione con esercizi e bibliografia ragionata,Roma, Bulzoni Editore, 2007 (only the chapters: La linguistica testuale and Il tedesco tra unitarietà e variazione).

- Theater, Theater. Aktuelle Stücke 24, Fischer, Frankfurt a.M, 2013.