The goal of the course is to acquaint students with various languages for special purposes (LSPs) and equip them to analyse them thoroughly. The LSPs chosen for study are those of commerce and tourism.
Learning goals
Acquiring competence in Language for Special Purposes (LSP)
- account for differing points of view on LSP
- understand the role of terminology, including terminology management
- master the principles of specialized translation
Skills to be acquired
- carry out documentary research
- design a term bank
- add records to a term base
- translate specialized texts into French
The field to be worked on is tourism.
Requirements
- read the documents supplied (see below under Bibliography)
- produce two translations
- present the results of documentary research
- produce terminology records
Bibliography
• Bedard, Jean,X. Darras, et. al. (2009), La rédaction de définitions terminologiques, Montréal, Office québécois de la langue française.
http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/depliants/redaction_def_terminologiques_2009.pdf
• Cabré, Maria Teresa (2008), « Constituer un corpus de textes de spécialité », Cahiers du CIEL, Université Paris-Diderot.
http://www.eila.univ-paris-diderot.fr/_media/recherche/clillac/ciel/cahiers/2007-2008/04-cabre.pdf?id=recherche:clillac:ciel:cahiers:2007-2008
• ISO 704 (2001), Travail terminologique, principes et méthodes, Paris, AFNOR
• ISO 1087-1 (2001), Travaux terminologiques, vocabulaire, partie 1 : Théorie et applications, Paris, AFNOR.
• Juilliard, Claudie (2008), Introduction à la terminology, Université Paris-Diderot (document provided)
• Lerat, Pierre (1994), La pratique terminologique dans le domaine du droit. Cahier 7 Langue et travail
• Petit, Michel (2006) « Les descripteurs du Cadre : quelle conception de la langue de spécialité ? »
http://www.langues-vivantes.u-bordeaux2.fr/frsa/pagesperso/michelpetit/pdf/06BxCadreDescr2.pdf
NB: Documents needed for coursework will be made available on http://elearning.univr.it.
Oral exams in French.
Continuous assessment only for students present at the lectures.
