Arab : introduction to translation and interpreting

Teacher(s)

. SOMEBODY; Hantout Mohsen;

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

First of all, the student is encouraged to develop a thorough general knowledge. This will help him/her to better handle the translation work. They are introduced to the translation of Arabic - French texts of a basic level of difficulty. Emphasis is placed on errors commonly made in the student's mastery of the French language (concordance of tenses, grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, etc.) as well as on translation errors proper (syntax, sentence structure, calque effect, misinterpretation, nonsense, omissions).

Bibliography

Dictionnaires traductifs arabe - français (Abdel Nour et Larousse). Recommandé: Arabic English Dictionary of Modern Arabic ( Hans Wehr). Ouvrages de référence divers.
Dictionnaires explicatifs, Le Robert et Larousse.
Textes tirés de la presse arabe: http://www/aljazeera.net, https://www.alquds.co.uk.

Faculty or entity

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