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Week - 1
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Information about the course introduction and structure; Introduction to Translation Studies: definition, scope, purpose |
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Week - 2
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The birth of translation studies and its historical development process, the evolution of translation from the Ancient Age to the Middle Ages |
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Week - 3
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Renaissance and modern approaches to translation, the emergence of translation studies as an academic discipline |
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Week - 4
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Fundamental Concepts of Translation Studies I: Source language, target language, equivalence, discussions on translation definitions |
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Week - 5
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Fundamental Concepts of Translation Studies II: Foreignization, domestication, text types, comparison of different definitions of translation throughout history |
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Week - 6
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Types of Translation I: Written Translation (Literary, Scientific, Technical), Fundamental Issues in Written Translation and Examples |
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Week - 7
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Mid-Term Exam |
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Week - 8
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Types of Translation II: Interpreting (consecutive, simultaneous), characteristics of interpreting, and application examples |
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Week - 9
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Types of Translation III: Audiovisual Translation (Subtitling, Dubbing), the cultural dimension of media translation |
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Week - 10
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Introduction to translation theories: Linguistic and pragmatics approaches; an overview of translation schools |
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Week - 11
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Comparing translation theories |
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Week - 12
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The relationship between language and culture in the translation process |
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Week - 13
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Translation strategies and methods: literal, free, and adaptive translation; strategies for translating from Arabic into Turkish and from Turkish into Arabic. |
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Week - 14
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Final Exam |
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