TRAN 361 — Introduction to the Theory of Translation
French · University of Ghana
This course is intended to equip students with the necessary competencies to analyze extralinguistic issues such as the cultural setting of a source text, the author‘s intention and intentionality, the purpose of the translation, the target audience, etc, as well as to apply translation strategies such as borrowing, calque, transposition, modulation, recasting, recategorisation, equivalence, adaptation, rationalisation, expansion, reduction, explicitation, implicitation, ennoblement, qualitative impoverishment, quantitative impoverishment, compensation, domestication, foreignisation and exoticisation in their translations.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- ENGL 373 — English Usage
- FREN 351 — Gender In Francophone African Fiction
- FREN 352 — Francophone African Drama and Poetry
- FREN 353 — The Age of Enlightenment and African Development
- FREN 354 — Topics in Nineteenth Century French Literature
- FREN 355 — Teaching French as Foreign Language I
- FREN 356 — Teaching French as Foreign Language II
- FREN 357 — Business French I: The Bank, Secretarial Services and Companies
- FREN 358 — Business French II: Purchasing, Sales and Accounting Services
- FREN 361 — French for International Relations I: Operations of International
- FREN 362 — French for International Relations II: Social Issues
- FREN 363 — French for the Hospitality Industry I: The Establishment and First
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).