Syllabus
Week 1
Intro/Fiction I
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (úryvek)
Week 2-3
Fiction II
Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (úryvek)
- accuracy vs fluency
Week 4-5
Journalese I
Jude Sheerin: Malawi windmill boy with big fans
Week 6-7
Journalese II
William Saletan: No smoking in your own apartment
Week 8-9
Journalese III
Gretchen Rubin: A secret to happiness? Don’t get organized
Week 10
Poetry
Benjamin Zephaniah: Miss World & Talking Turkeys
- meter, fundamental prosodic elements relevant for translation
Week 11-12
Fiction III
Allyson Armistead: A Girl in Red (úryvek)
Week 13 (an optional follow-up activity)
Dubbing from audio
Ken Robinson: a TED lecture on creativity (úryvek)
- dubbing from audio into a script; translation and peer-review
Annotation
The goal of the course is to enhance the students' linguistic competence and to develop their translation skills by means of translations of selected texts both from English into Czech and vice versa. The texts will include creative literature and specialized texts highlighting the broad spectrum of style registers characteristic of modern English, especially in its British and American varieties.