KHAZAR UNIVERSITY
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Course Syllabus
“Translation : Text Analysis ”
English language and literature department
Instructor : PhD –Eldar Shahgaldiyev
Baku -2013-February
LING-615: Translation: Text Analysis
Department: ELL
Semester: Fall 2013
Credit: 3 units
Hours: 4 hours per week
Instructor: Associate Professor Eldar Shahgaldiyev
Office: Room #
Phone: 421 10 93, 421 79 16
E-mail: eshahgaldiyev @khazar.org
Web site :http://www.khazar.org
Office hours: by appointment
The required core textbooks for the course are:
1. Text Analysis- Work Book by Larry Gleason
2. The Analysis in Translation by Christiane Nord (Theory, Methodology, and Didactic
Application of a Model for Translation Oriented Text Analysis. Amsterdam, Atlanta, 1991
Supplementary materials:
1. Literary analysis of a text using STRUCTURALIST theoretical framework Analyzing
Countee Cullen 's poem "Incident: Structuralist frameworks of Roland Barthes and Ferdinand
de Saussure
2. Literary Analysis Essay Samples (1, 2, 3)
3. Textual Analysis ppt. Materials (presentation)
4. Tips for Literary Analysis and Writing (online resources)
On line references
http://habrahabr.ru/company/gilalgorithms/blog/68127/?
http://habrahabr.ru/post/150251/
http://habrahabr.ru/post/144491/
http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/nauka/article/178135/
http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Linguist/anisim/index.php
Анализ текста (in Russian):
http://www.ruthenia.ru/annalystxt/
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Анализ_текста
http://www.statsoft.ru/home/portal/exchange/textanalysis.htm
http://www.analizpisem.ru/programm2.html
http://textmarket.net/analiz-teksta
http://www.tutoronline.ru/blog/feb_2012/lingvisticheskij-analiz-teksta.aspx
Grading Criteria :
Midterm Exam – 25%
Final Exam – 40%
Assignments – 20%
Project – 15%
Course Description
Objectives:
Translation: Text Analysis
The course provides students with tools and approaches to a comprehensive pre-translation analysis
of authentic spoken and written discourses in their relevant contexts. The project offers the major
tools for the text analysis by looking at five key aspects of the text. It also helps the students to think
critically about the text's content, purpose and context embracing the followings.
1.Signs:
What is the content of the text? Think holistically first - what does this text represent? What story
does it tell? But also think in specific terms - what are the elements of this text? What pieces symbols, images, words - does the text include? What related elements or details might have been
included but are left out?
2.Structure:
How is the text organized? How would you describe the order or organizing system that holds this
text together? It might be chronological, large or small scale, cyclical, or random - or something else.
How would you describe the relationship between the elements of the text? What connections are
emphasized? From what perspective do we view whatever is represented here?
3.Intent:
What was the intention of the creator(s) of this text? In order to understand the intent of the
text, you need to know who created it and the creator's situation and perspective. Who were they?
Was the creation of this text prompted by some specific event or problem, or was it a matter of selfexpression?
4.Use:
How was this text used? Here, too, you need to identify the users. Who was the original audience
for the text? Why did they turn to this text - for entertainment? Information? How did they make use
of the text? Did they carry it with them, view it in a museum or magazine, use it as a tool for their
work?
5.Memory:
What do you bring to this text? What memories or ideas do you have about the content or situation
of this text? What information or feelings from your own experience influence the way you respond
to this text? What assumptions do you bring about this kind of text and how to make sense of it?
The course tackles the students with in-depth text analysis skills in authentic oral and written
environment.
Learning Outcomes
After studying this course the student should be able to :
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Use data analysis and different modeling techniques while translating, interpreting and
comprehending the resource materials in English
Understand the steps involved in text analysis
Make a holistic approach to the English resource materials while translating
Acquire a working knowledge for text analysis and its elements to be used in translation and
interpretation
Apply the various techniques to solve problems.
Course Outline
Week
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Topics
Five key aspects of the text. What is text analysis?
Methods in text analysis: An Introduction. Methodological
background and steps in analysis
Analyzing a passage: Principles of analyzing a passage
Examples of text analysis. Example 1, 2. Developing the
individual text analysis samples.
Tips for Literary Analysis and Writing. Terminology
needed before analyzing or writing in a literary manner.
Literary Analysis Essays: Sample Structures
Main parameters of a linguistic analysis of the text
Revision of the Units 1-7
Midterm Exam
Traditional rhetorical devices, including rhetorical tropes
and rhetorical figures
A sentence adverb and Asyndeton
Polysyndeton and Understatement
Litotes: Personal research on the expressive devices
Concept of “Epithets”
Text analysis presentations
Final Exam
Hours
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
Total: 60 hours