TRA4123 - Semantics and Translation
Year of Study: | 3, 4 |
Credit Units: | 3 |
Duration: | 45hours |
Prerequisites: | Nil |
Module Description
This module is designed for students who aspire to carve out for themselves a career in administration, publishing and advertising. The topics include various semantic approaches to the analysis of different types of word meaning in a text and address the key issues of functional grammar pertaining to translation studies.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
- analyse and describe the semantic structure of a sentence in English and Chinese;
- apply the knowledge of semantic structure to the accurate translation of technical texts between English and Chinese; and
- evaluate and comment critically on a translated technical text using their knowledge of semantic structure.