Spanish 597LE - ST-Linguistics/Translators

How do we translate linguistic time from one language to the other? What do translations do? How do we recognize the "voice" of the translator? What do we learn from the translation of emotions between different languages? This course explores the interrelationships between Translation Studies and Linguistics, highlighting explicitly the benefits of mutual interaction between the disciplines. We shall explore, among other things, such linguistic concepts as speech acts, politeness, deixis, tense, aspect, word order, cohesion and modality in order to discuss their relevance to translation and the multiple challenges they pose for translators. The course includes weekly translation exercises, analysis of translations, readings of research on specific topics in linguistics and critical discussion of different translation approaches. Ranging from translations of Latin American literature in Spanish and Portuguese to translations of the Hebrew Bible into various languages, this course will investigate from a linguistic point of view a number of central issues involved in the process of how a translation comes into being.