Text Studies
The course will provide a deeper insight into Text Studies terminology and methods to evaluate text units in a scientific and holistic way. It will give effect to the translation analysis and translation strategy selection. The course is directly related to other courses of the programme, such as History of Linguistic Studies and Translation, Linguistic Research Methods and Terminology, General Translation Theory, Cross-cultural Communication Theory and Practice, Corpus Linguistics and Translation. Also, it contributes to the final stage of the programme that is Thesis Writing and Defense.
The goal of mastering the discipline
to holistically study texts through employing sufficient research methodology and proper terminology of Text Studies, as well as discourse analysis conceptual framework
The skills you get
- apply modern methods to search and interpret specific professional discourse both in native and foreign languages
- • apply modern methods to structure text units in professional cross-cultural communication
- • correctly classify professional-specific texts to employ proper translation techniques
- • effectively utilize language corpora, data bases, linguistic and lexicographical resources
- • exercise modern methods of linguistic analysis and develop translation strategy decisions
Topics covered
- Text as a subject of linguistic studies. Text as a comprehensive information unit. Semantic and communicative text categories. Methods to develop texts. Information types, text functional and notional aspects. Pragmatic aspects. Text classifications. Text styles. Text information density. Informativity. Text information compression.
When instructed
- 1st year, 2nd semester
List of references and sourses
Karimova, I. R. Textology - IPR BOOKS : [site]. — URL: http://www.iprbookshop.ru/29871.html
Plekhanova, T. F. Discourse Analysis - IPR BOOKS : [site]. — URL: http://www.iprbookshop.ru/28074.html
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