Course: Interpreting Seminar 1

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Course title Interpreting Seminar 1
Course code KSR/7TSN1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech, Russian
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Čadajeva Olga, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
01. The topic of crime - basic vocabulary, introductory text. 02. Exercising the vocabulary - expressions, collocations, typical sentences, automation, consecutive interpreting, interpreting of written text. 03. Working with texts: exercises, automated texts, short announcements. Consecutive interpreting. 04. Consecutive interpreting. Condensation of a text, interpreting of written text and transformations. 05. Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting - crime, prepared and new texts. 06. Social problems - contemporary text and main vocabulary. 07. Social problems and crime - automation of expressions, interpreting form a written text, consecutive interpreting. 08. Mock-conference - on a selected topic. 09. The topic of justice - presentation of vocabulary and realia, a short text. 10. Vocabulary exercices - automatization, precision of expression, text analysis. 11. Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting - justice, text analysis (compression, prognosis, interpreting from Czech to Russian). 12. Summing up - mock-conference in a recording studio.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Observation
  • Attendace - 25 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 38 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 12 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The already acquired interpreting skills (consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, sight translation) are applied to the topic of Criminality. Justice. Social problems. The aim of this course is not only to get familiar with the topic, vocabulary, fixed expressions and realia, but, more importantly, to train and practice interpreting skills and treatment of a text (comprehension, selecting the dominant information, reproduction and re-stylisation). We shall gradually focus more and more on simultaneous interpreting and active interpreting.
Students will acquire the ability to use their general skills to work with Russian and Czech language in consecutive and simultaneous interpreting on the topic of crime and judiciary system.
Prerequisites
Practical knowledge of Russian corresponding to at least B2 level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. Knowledge of interpreting methods acquired, for instance, in the KSR/7TRP1/2 courses.

Assessment methods and criteria
Analysis of linguistic

attendance, max. 2 absences marked recordings of interpreting performance participation in a mock-conference dealing with the topic recording in a AV studio
Recommended literature
  • Csiriková, M. (1995). : Kognitivní osvojování funkčních dominant textu při tlumočnickém nácviku. In: Rossica Ostraviensia 1995, s. 193 an..
  • Csiriková, M., Vysloužilová, E. a kol. (1999). Odborný slovník česko-ruský z oblasti ekonomické, politické a právní.. Linde Praha.
  • Čeňková, I. (1987). Princip ekonomie v procesu simultánního tlumočení. In: ČsR XXXII, .
  • Rezková, J. (2008). Ruština pro právníky. Praha.
  • Vysloužilová, E. a kol. (1994). : Cvičebnice překladatelství a tlumočnictví pro ruštináře I, II.. Olomouc UP.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Russian for Translators (2019) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter