Slovene-Italian Translation

The focus is on general and specialised vocabulary building, collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs etc. and identification of Slovene translation equivalents. Different methodological approaches and terminology of translation studies, enabling students to analyse translation and reflect on their own translation procedures. Translation of different texts into Slovene: popular science, humanities, journalistic, literary etc. Analysis of source and target texts. Discussion of individual translation problems.

Radicchi S. (1995) In Italia. Modi di dire ed espressioni idiomatiche. Roma: Bonacci Editore.
Mortasa Garavelli B. (2010) Il parlare figurato. Bari Roma: Laterza.
Lavezzi G. (2007) Breve dizionario di retorica e stilistica. Roma: Carocci Editore.
Manzoni A. I promessi sposi.

Students are expected to have access to mono- and bi-lingual dictionaries in electronic or paper
form. Obligatory:
1. Bajec, A. et al., ur. (1970-1991) Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika I-IV. Ljubljana: DZS. COBISS.SI-ID – 5680645
2. Enojezični italijanski slovar; študent lahko izbira med slovarji večjih italijanskih založb: Zanichelli, Garzanti itd.
3. Šlenc, S. (1997) Veliki italijansko-slovenski slovar. Ljubljana: DZS COBISS.SI-ID - 3002398
4. Šlenc, S. (2006) Veliki slovensko-italijanski slovar. Ljubljana: DZS. COBISS.SI-ID - 225272832
Slovenski pravopis. Ljubljana: ZRC in SAZU.

Also recommended: various specialized dictionaries and other sources, dictionaries of synonyms, picture dictionaries, encyclopaedias, terminology dictionaries and glossaries, bi-lingual dictionaries with other language combinations.