Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202124 Introduction to Translation
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK 1106.1
Office Hours: M 1–3 and by appointment
Phone: 0-2218-4703
Section
9
BRK 511
M 8–10, W 9–10
Tentative Schedule (Group ?)
Week 1 |
Oct. 22 |
No class |
Oct. 24 |
Introduction: What Is Translation?, Translator's Tools Sentence Issues Reading: CB 1-3 Discussion: definitions of translation; the process of translation; difference; tools and resources; sentence boundary, omission of subject and object, topic-comment structure, direct and indirect object, particles and complements in Thai; tense and aspect (Examples) |
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Week 2 | Oct. 29 |
Sentence Issues Reading
Discussion: agreement; tense, aspect; serial verb construction in Thai; voice; Exercises #1-18 |
Oct. 31 |
Sentence Issues Reading: CB 7-9 Discussion: dummy it; articles; false friends; Exercises #19-26 |
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Week 3 | Nov. 5 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 9-20 Discussion: types of texts; news writing structure in Thai and English; translating headlines, giving news source and summary; news #1 (Quake) |
Nov. 7 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 21 Discussion: news #2 (Karachi-Lahore blazes) |
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Week 4 | Nov. 12 |
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Nov. 14 |
No class (Chula Expo: November 12-18, 2012) |
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Week 5 | Nov. 19 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 21-22 Discussion: news #3-4 (Indonesian train crash and Australian ice arrest) |
Nov. 21 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 23 Discussion: fact check
Class meets in BRK Computer Center |
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Week 6 | Nov. 26 |
News (English-Thai and Thai-English) Reading: CB 24-25 Discussion: English-Thai news #5 (Gunmen in Baluchistan) |
Nov. 28 |
Test 1 (news English-Thai; 20 points) |
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Week 7 | Dec. 3 |
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Dec. 5 |
No class (Father's Day) |
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Week 8 | Dec. 10 |
No class
(Constitution Day)
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Dec. 12 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 28 Discussion: news #4 (à ¸¢à ¸°à ¸¥à ¸²)
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Week 9 | Dec. 17 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 29–31 Discussion: news #5–7 (à ¸›à ¸¥à ¹‰à ¸™à ¸£à ¹‰à ¸²à ¸™à ¹€à ¸‹à ¹€à ¸§à ¹ˆà ¸™à ¸¯, à ¸ˆà ¸±à ¸š à ¹„à ¸¡à ¹‰à ¸žà ¸°à ¸¢à ¸¹à ¸‡à ¹€à ¸–à ¸·à ¹ˆà ¸Âà ¸™ and à ¸™à ¹‰à ¸³ à ¸—à ¹ˆà ¸§à ¸¡à ¸â€Ã ¸´à ¸™à ¸–à ¸¥à ¹ˆà ¸¡) |
Dec. 19 |
Informative
Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 32–35 Discussion: analyzing informative texts; informative passage sample (Eleanor Roosevelt), informative passage #1 (Facial expressions) |
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Week 10 | Dec. 24 |
(Midterm Week: December 24–28, 2012) Informative Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 36 Discussion: informative passage #2 (football) Test 2 (news Thai-English; 20
points) |
Dec. 26 |
No class (Midterm Week: December 24–28, 2012) |
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Week 11 | Dec. 31 |
No class (New Year's Eve)
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Jan. 2 |
Informative Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 37–38 Discussion: informative passage #3–4 (parenting and dinosaurs) |
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Week 12 | Jan. 7 |
Informative Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 39–40 Discussion: informative passages #5–6 (seppuku and happiness)
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Jan. 9 |
Test 3 (informative text English-Thai; 20 points) |
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Week 13 | Jan. 14 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013) |
Jan. 16 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 14-18, 2013) |
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Week 14 | Jan. 21 |
Informative Text (Thai-English) Reading: CB 41-42 Discussion: informative passages #1-2 (à ¸—à ¸â€Ã ¸ªà ¸Âà ¸š
à ¸œà ¸¥à ¸´à ¸•à ¸ à ¸±à ¸“à ¸‘à ¹Œ and à ¸›à ¸£à ¸°à ¹€à ¸—à ¸¨
à ¹„à ¸—à ¸¢) |
Jan. 23 |
Informative Text (Thai-English) Reading: CB 43 Discussion: informative passage #3 (coconut)
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Week 15 | Jan. 28 |
Informative Text (Thai-English) Reading: CB 44-45 Discussion: informative passages #4-5 (elephant and orange)
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Jan. 30 |
Expressive Text Reading: CB 46-51 Discussion: Translating expressive text; exercise #1 (Larson, Hattie Big Sky) |
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Week 16 | Feb. 4 |
Expressive Text Reading: CB 52-53 Discussion: Exercise #2-3
(Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes and Hautman, Godless)
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Feb. 6 |
Test 4
(informative text Thai-English; 20 points) |
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Week 17 | Feb. 11 |
Expressive Text Reading: CB 54-55 Discussion: expressive text passages #4-5 (Hoffman, The River King and Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes) |
Feb. 13 |
Expressive Text Reading: CB 56 Discussion: expressive text passage #6 (Grace Bedell)
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Week 18 | Feb. 18 |
Review Reading: CB 1-56 Discussion: review news, informative
texts, expressive texts, tests |
Feb. 20 |
Test 5 (expressive text English-Thai; 20 points) |
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Week 19 | Mar. 4 |
Final Exam (8:30-11:30 a.m.) Dictionaries (electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room.
BRK ? |
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