Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202124 Introduction to Translation
Puckpan Tipayamontri
Office: BRK 1106.1
Office Hours: M 13 and by appointment
Phone: 0-2218-4703
Section
8
BRK
313
M
89:30,
W 9:3011
Tentative Schedule
Week 1 |
Jan.
5 |
Introduction: What Is Translation?, Translator's Tools Sentence Issues Reading: CB 14 Discussion: definitions of translation; the process of translation; difference from interpretation; tools and resources; sentence boundary; omission of subject and object; topic-comment structure in Thai; tense and aspect; exercises #14 |
Jan.
7 |
Sentence Issues Reading: CB 16 Discussion: definitions of translation; the process of translation; difference from interpretation; tools and resources; sentence boundary; omission of subject and object; topic-comment structure in Thai; tense and aspect; exercises #116 |
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Week 2 |
Jan.
12 |
Sentence Issues Reading
Discussion: serial verb construction in Thai; voice; dummy it; articles; false friends; exercises #1726 |
Jan.
14 |
News (English-Thai)
Reading: CB 918 Discussion: types of texts; news writing structure in Thai and English; translating headlines, giving news source and summary; news exercise #1 (Flash floods in Vietnam)
*Class meets in the BRK Computer Center |
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Week 3 |
Jan.
19 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 1923, 2015) |
Jan.
21 |
No class (Intervarsity Games: January 1923, 2015) |
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Week 4 |
Jan.
26 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 919 Discussion: news exercises #2 (Karachi, Lahore
fires) |
Jan.
28 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 921 Discussion: news exercises #3 (Indonesian
train crash)
and #4 (Bombs
in New Delhi) |
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Week 5 |
Feb.
2 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 923 Discussion: news exercises #5 (Gunmen in Baluchistan)
and #6 (Chinese
students) |
Feb.
4 |
News (English-Thai) Reading: CB 924 Discussion: news exercises #7 (British girls smuggling in Ghana) |
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Week 6 |
Feb.
9 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 2526 Discussion: news exercises #1 (แม่ฮ่องสอนน้ำท่วม) and #2
(ไฟไหม้
โกดังภูเก็ต) |
Feb.
11 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 27 Discussion: news exercise #3 (เก๋งชนสะพาน)
Test 1 (news English-Thai)
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Week 7 |
Feb.
16 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 2829 Discussion: news exercises #4 (ค้าของปลอม) and #5 (อดีตนักโทษ ปล้น) |
Feb.
18 |
News (Thai-English) Reading: CB 30 Discussion: news exercise #6 (วัยรุ่นค้ายา) |
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Week 8 |
Feb.
23 |
Informative Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 3135 Discussion: text analysis; readership;
cultural and language issues; informative passages Eleanor Roosevelt,
#1 (marine
life) and #2 (supermarket) |
Feb.
25 |
Informative
Text (English-Thai) Reading:
CB 36 Discussion:
informative passage #3 (Apgar)
Test 2 (news Thai-English)
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Week 9 |
Mar.
2 |
Informative
Text (English-Thai) Reading:
CB 3738 Discussion: informative passages #4 (climate and life) and #5 (kimchi) |
Mar.
4 |
No class (Magha Puja Day) |
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Week 10 |
Mar.
9 |
Informative
Text (English-Thai, Thai-English) Reading:
CB 3940 Discussion: informative passages #6 (seppuku) and #1 (สาน ตะกร้า)
Language
Use Examples: Students e-mail
me language use sentences illustrating the range of
possibilities on your signed-up language
topic. Send me three sentence examples (with links or
reference information, of course) each from published articles
on each of the following five topics 1. deep ocean life
2. supermarket history 3. Inuit life and culture
4. kimchi history 5. the seppuku ritual. |
Mar.
11 |
Informative
Text (Thai-English) Reading:
CB 41 Discussion: informative passage #2 (มวย ไทย) |
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Week 11 |
Mar.
16 |
Informative
Text (Thai-English) Reading:
CB 4143 |
Mar.
18 |
Informative Text (Thai-English) Reading:
CB 43 Discussion:
informative passage #4 (มะพร้าว) Test 3 (informative text English-Thai)
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Week 12 |
Mar.
23 |
Informative
Text (Thai-English) Reading: CB 44 Discussion: informative passage #5 (ส้ม) |
Mar. 25 |
Informative
Text (Thai-English) Reading:
CB 3144 Discussion: informative text translation
Student Presentations: Each student will have three minutes to teach the language topic you signed up for through two sentence translations: 1. คิดถึงครู: Each
student translates a sentence from Chakrabhand Posayakrit's
collection of articles into English and use the Thai and
English versions as examples to explain and compare linguistic
differences of an aspect of your language topic. 2. Choose your own text: Each student
translates a sentence from an interesting Thai informative
text of your choice into English. Choose a source that is
authoritative and has good Thai. Use the Thai and English
versions as examples to teach your classmates about an aspect
of your language topic. |
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Week 13 |
Mar.
30 |
Expressive
Text (English-Thai) Reading:
CB 4551 Discussion: expressive passages #1 (Klass, "City Sidewalks") and #2 (Kamber, "Toil and Temptation") |
Apr.
1 |
Expressive
Text (English-Thai) Reading:
CB 52 Discussion:
expressive passage #3 (Larson, Hattie
Big Sky) Test 4 (informative text Thai-English)
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Week 14 |
Apr. 6 |
No class (Chakri Day) |
Apr.
8 |
Expressive Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 53 Discussion: expressive passage #3 (Larson, Hattie Big Sky) and #4 (Collier, "The Chaser") |
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Week 15 |
Apr.
13 |
No class (Songkran Holidays: April 1315, 2015) |
Apr.15 |
No class (Songkran Holidays: April 1315, 2015) |
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Week 16 |
Apr. 20 |
Expressive Text (English-Thai) Reading: CB 5455 Discussion: expressive passages #5 (Thompson, "Final Break") and #6 (Dahl, "William and Mary")
Practice
Test: Before Monday, students e-mail me a practice
test for news, Thai-English or English-Thai. Choose or edit
the news passage (including headline) so that it has 125135
words. Provide a suggested translation on the back along with
any other helpful notes on translation and vocabulary. We will
draw one to use for in-class exam practice and discussion.
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Apr. 22 |
Expressive Text (English-Thai) Reading:
CB 4555 Discussion: informative text; case studies; practice test
Practice
Test: Before Wednesday, students e-mail me a practice
test for informative text, Thai-English or English-Thai.
Choose or edit the informative passage so that it has 125135
words. Give proper citation for your sources, and provide a
suggested translation on the back along with any other helpful
notes on translation and vocabulary. We will draw one to use
for in-class exam practice and discussion.
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Week 17 |
Apr. 27 |
Review Reading: CB 144 Discussion: news, informative texts,
expressive texts
Practice
Test: Before Monday, students e-mail me a practice
test for expressive text (English-Thai). Choose or edit the
expressive passage from a short story or novel so that it has
125135 words. Provide a suggested translation on the back
along with any other helpful notes on translation and
vocabulary. We will draw one to use for in-class exam practice
and discussion.
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Apr. 29 |
Review Reading: CB 4574 Discussion: expressive texts
Test 5 (expressive text English-Thai)
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Week 18 |
May 6 |
Final Exam (8:3011:30
a.m.) There will be five parts, corresponding to each of the
five translation types in our five tests. Dictionaries
(electronic or paper) are not allowed in the exam room. |
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