Course detail
Czech Language for Interpretation
FEKT-BPC-CPPAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course offers the students basic theoretical and practical tools that can be used in translation process – e.g. techniques of creative writing and theory of functional sentence perspective. The course further widens students’ knowledge of English and Czech word order differences and it also offers an introduction into interpretation and understanding of a text. It also focuses on practical skills as far as the creation of a correctly witten Czech texts are concerned - whether from the point of view of appropriate style or correct grammar.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The exam, where the maximu number of point is 60, using a in-class written test, tests the ability of the student to apply practical stylistic skills as well as practival knowledge concerning Czech grammar.
Aims
Student is able to:
- to choose appropriate expreessions across the whole spectrum of stylistic means depending on the function of the resulting text.
- to select appropriate formal structure when creating a text.
- to define, analyse and interpret the relationship and differences in meaning between the source text and its translation caused by culural, linguistic and pragmatic factors.
- to find mistakes in existing translation when comparing it with the source text, correct these mistakes and defend his or her choice.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KARLÍK, Petr, Marek NEKULA, Zdenka RUSÍNOVÁ a Miroslav GREPL. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Vyd. 2., opr. [i.e. 4. vyd.]. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7106-624-8.
VRBOVÁ, Alena. Stylistika pro překladatele: texty a cvičení : [učební text]. Praha: Karolinum, 1998. ISBN 80-7184-585-X.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-APE Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
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Fundamentals seminar
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