Translation Theory and Practice
Course Description
Course Title: Translation Theory Practice
Course Prerequisites: Comprehensive English
Course to be followed: Advanced E-C translation
Credit: 4.0
Total Semester Credit Hours: 64
Lecture Hours: 32
Experiment/ Computer Hours: 0
Practice: 32
Sponsored by: School of Foreign Studies
Major: English
Course Description:
Translation Theory and Practice is a compulsory course for English major students to improve their ability to translate with the guide of translation basic theories. This course aims to lead the students to gain knowledge of translation histories in China and the western world followed by grasping the principles, methods and techniques of translation. Students will then do written translation with the help of the techniques learned in the course.This course will also present the histories of China and the western world, translation principles, translation methods/techniques of words, sentences, paragraphs and texts, translation of all styles of texts, and CAT.
Textbooks and Course Materials:
1. 贾一村, 单宇鑫. 应用翻译简明教程[M]. 长沙: 中南大学出版社, 2016.(Jia Yicun, Shan Yuxin. A Course Textbook of Pragmatic Translation. Changsha: Central South University Press, 2016.)
2. 李美. 汉英翻译高级教程[M]. 上海: 华东理工大学出版社, 2016.(Li Mei. An Advanced Coursebook on Chinese-English Translation[M]. Shanghai: East China University of Science and Technology Press, 2016.)
3. 吕奇, 杨元刚. 计算机辅助翻译入门[M]. 武汉: 武汉大学出版社, 2015.(Lv Qi, Yang Yuangang. An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Translation[M]. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2015.)
4. 孙致礼. 新编英汉翻译教程（第二版）[M]. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社, 2013. (Sun Zhili. A Coursebook on English-Chinese Translation(2nd Ed)[M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2013.)
5. 谭卫国, 蔡龙权. 新编英汉互译教程(第四版)[M]. 上海: 华东理工大学出版社, 2015.(Tan Weiguo, Cai Longquan. A New Coursebook on E-C Translation(2nd Ed)[M]. East China University of Science and Technology Press, 2015.)
6. 谢天振, 何绍斌. 简明中西翻译史[M]. 北京: 外语教学与研究出版社, 2013.(Xie Tianzhen, He Shaobin. A Brief Introduction to Translation Histories of China and the Western World[M]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2013.)
Written by: Peng Fangzhen
