Translation (Summer 2022)

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• Select section Every Translation is Unique. Try your own translation of Robert Frost's

  Every Translation is Unique. Try your own translation of Robert Frost's

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  • Select activity Want to see your version of Frost's poem

    

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• Select section Introduction

  Introduction

  Course Teacher

  Fatema Begum Laboni

  Assistant Professor

  Department of English

  Fatema@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd

  01736661195

  Counseling hour (Sunday to Tuesday from 8.30 to 11.30)

  
  

  Introduction

  Though translation is a transition from any Source Language to Target Language, the course will only use Bangla and English as SL or TL.

  Course Description: The course introduces students with the art of translation along with the theories and different techniques relating to it. As a part of the course work, students have to undertake intensive and extensive practice in translating literary and non-literary texts from English to Bangla and vice versa. Special emphasis is laid on translating a text maintaining its originality and quality. Translation for special purposes is also covered.
  Course Objectives: After completing this course, students will be able to: ·         evaluate the quality of a translated text, understand the process and art of translation. ·         analyse the cultural and political considerations concerning translation. ·         demonstrate their skill as a translator.
  Learning Outcomes	Course Contents
  ·         Students will be able to identify and explain the theories of translation.	Theory Translation: Scope and Significance Translation, Language and Culture Translation and Literature History of Literary Translation Literary Translation Theories
  ·         Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the quality of any translated texts.	Evaluation of Translated Texts (Selected by the course teacher)
  ·         Students will be able to identify and explain the techniques of translation.	Techniques of Translation Borrowing, Calque Literal Translation Transposition Modulation Equivalence or Reformulation Decoding and Recoding Adaptation etc.
  ·         Students will be able to translate any literary or non-literary text.	Assignment on Translation
  Recommended Reading Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies. Routledge, 1991. Hatim, Basil, and Jeremy Munday. Translation: An Advanced Resource Book. Psychology Press, 2004. Lefevere, Andre. Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame. Taylor & Francis, 2016. Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery: And Other Essays on Indian Literature in English Translation. Allied Publishers Private, 1981. Ricoeur, Paul. On Translation. Taylor & Francis, 2006. Venuti, Lawrence, editor. The Translation Studies Reader. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2004.

  Assessment: Mid term: 15
                         Final :40
                         Quizzes:15
                         Assignment: 5
                         Presentation:8
  
  

  • Select activity Text

    

    Text File

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  • Select activity Attendance

    

    Attendance Forum

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• Select section Translate

  Translate

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to translate from a daily newspaper
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to:

    • translate a national news from English to Bangla
      

  • Lecture Content:

    • The Daily Star
      
    • Prothom Alo
      

  
  

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  • Select activity Quiz 1 on plane crash

    

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• Select section Common Dictions in Newspaper

  Common Dictions in Newspaper

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn dictions from a daily newspaper
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to:

    • know the common diction used in international/national/local/sports/entertainment nes

  http://www.english-bangla.com/translations/all/20
  

  • Select activity Some very common expression

    

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    Common Dictions in Newspaper File

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• Select section History of translation

  History of translation

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn history of transnlation from Greco-Roman age to Victorian age.
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to:

    • know the history of translation

  
  

  • Select activity History From Greek-Roman time to Pre-Modern

    

    History From Greek-Roman time to Pre-Modern File

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  • Select activity Can you now create 20 questions on the topic

    

    Can you now create 20 questions on the topic Assignment

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    Rubric for the assessment in audio format

    
    

    Rubric

    15-10	9-5	4-0
    Completion of 20 questions	Some question are not made	Only few question are made
    Analytical, creative, reflective of content- knowledge	Analytical, creative	Simple

    
    
    
    

• Select section The Bet

  The Bet

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • Translating fictional work
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will translate

    • The Bet   by Anton Chekov

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  • Select activity Assignment on 'The Bet'

    

    Assignment on 'The Bet'

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• Select section Translating from Bengali to English

  Translating from Bengali to English

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn translating from Bengali to English, at the same time practice retaining cultural -context, heritage and expressions in translation
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to:

    • Translate Bengali letters in to English

  
  

  • Select activity Ekattorer Chithi

    

    Ekattorer Chithi File
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    Midterm Assignment

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    Please Accept the turn it in option. Do not contact your friends during the exam. Getting similar answers will grade you '0' in that question.

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• Select section Translating small English moral stories in to Bengali

  Translating small English moral stories in to Bengali

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn translating Aesop's fable keeping theltue proverbial moral of the story same as found in TL culture.
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to:

    • Translate Aesop's Fable

  
  

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  • Select activity Discussion on Midterm

    

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    Submit the translation of The Bet.
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    15-11	10-7	6-0
    Appropriate selection and maintaining size mentioned	Almost inappropriate content and size	Anomalies in selection and size
    Sense for sense translation, conscious of transition of culture, spontaneous and consciously following appropriate translation method wherever necessary.	Sense for sense translation, conscious of transition of culture, spontaneous	Does not make sense and incomplete

    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    

• Select section Facts and problems of translation in Bangladeshi context

  Facts and problems of translation in Bangladeshi context

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn facts and problems of translation in Bangladeshi context from Khademul Islam's perspective.
  • Translation Theory
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to Know:

    • Why Bangla translation fails while translating fiction of other languge
    • Reasons of small number of good translator.
    • Translation theory
      

  
  

  • Select activity Khademul Islam's Essay on Translation

    

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    15-11	10-7	6-0
    Keeping the poetic sense in the translation of the ST	Less importance on poetic appeal	Prosaic
    Appropriate Sense for sense translation, conscious of transition of culture, spontaneous selection and maintaining size mentioned	Almost inappropriate content and size	Anomalies in selection and size
    Sense for sense translation, conscious of transition of culture, spontaneous and consciously following appropriate translation method wherever necessary.	Sense for sense translation, conscious of transition of culture, spontaneous	Does not make sense and incomplete

    
    
    

• Select section Translating Bengali poem

  Translating Bengali poem

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • Translating Tagore's Poem in Bangla
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to :

    • Differnet version of ENglish Translation of Tagore's poem

  
  

  • Select activity Rabindranath's poem and its translation

    

    Rabindranath's poem and its translation File

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• Select section Translating Modern Bengali Fiction

  Translating Modern Bengali Fiction

  Objectives of this lecture:

  • To teach the students to learn -how to  translate  Bengali Fiction
    

  • Lecture Outcomes: 

    At the end of the session students will be able to Know:

    • Translate Humayun Ahmed 

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• Select section Jamboard experience

  Jamboard experience

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