• Credits: 5
  • Ending: Examination

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- understanding, acquiring, and mastering extended methodological principles of translation from German into Slovak and vice versa and implementing them in practice.
Competence:
- acquiring a vast knowledge of working with the source and target language through text analysis and transforming the source into the target language with its structure and lexicon.
- building on translations´ basic knowledge and methodology of translation, acquired at the bachelor's degree with a focus on translation from Slovak into German and vice versa.
Skills:
- the ability to properly analyze the original and correctly translate it into the target text at an adequate linguistic and stylistic level.

Indicative content

- Superstructural principles of translation from Slovak into German and vice versa
- Techniques of translation from Slovak into German and vice versa
- Analysis of the original
- Transformation of the author's ideas into the target text
- Types of translation
- Analysis and translation of more difficult institutional, legal and economic texts

Support literature

Support literature:
1. KADRIC, Mira - KAINDL, Klaus. Berufsziel Übersetzen und Dolmetschen. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2016. 346 S. ISBN 978-3-8252-4454-5.
2. BAUMANN, Klaus-Dieter - KALVERKÄMPER, Hartwig. Theorie und Praxis des Dolmetschens und Übersetzens in fachlichen Kontexten. Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, 2013. 756 S. ISBN 978-3-7329-0016-9.
3. MÜGLOVÁ, Daniela. Komunikácia tlmočenie preklad: alebo Prečo spadla Babylonská veža. Bratislava: Enigma, 2009. 440 s. ISBN 978-80- 8133-0742.
4. BUZZASIOVÁ, Klára - JAROŠOVÁ, Alexandra ed. Slovník súčasného slovenského jazyka a-g. Bratislava: Veda, 2006. 1134 s. ISBN 80-224-09324.
5. BUZZASIOVÁ, Klára - JAROŠOVÁ, Alexandra ed. Slovník súčasného slovenského jazyka h-l. Bratislava: Veda, 2011. 1088 s. ISBN 80-224-0932-4.
6. DUDEN. Die deutsche Rechtsschreibung, Duden: Brockhaus, 2020. 1296 S. ISBN 978-3-411-04018-6.
7. Monolingual and translation general, economic and legal dictionaries on our market of your choice
8. Internet dictionaries
9. Current journal articles on translation in German and Slovak
Optional literature:
IATE (Termbase of the EU): https://iate.europa.eu/
Corpus-based platform SketchEngine: sketchengine.eu
Slovak National Corpus: https://korpus.sk/
EUR-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=sk
Online dictionary Linguee: https://www.linguee.com/

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Full-time study: 130 h
52 hours of seminars
30 hours of preparation for the seminars
48 hours of preparation for the exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, German

Date of approval: 18.01.2022

Date of the latest change: 09.05.2022