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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

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Course details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).