Overall objectives:

1 - Acquire a diachronic overview of Translation Studies.
2 - Promote research on translation studies in target languages: L1/Source Language - Portuguese / Target Language - English in the global panorama.
3 - Familiarize students with paradigms and methodologies relevant to the areas of translation and terminology in the digital era.
4 - Produce a text in the target language, based on a terminological description.

Syllabus:

1 - Module 1. Translation i. Translation studies: Diachronic perspective ii. Translation Methods and Techniques ii. Corpora selection of printed texts, electronic and multimodal documents iii. Ethics and responsibility in corpora research and translation
2 - Module II. Terminology i. Brief overview: Terminology across domains in professional discourse ii. Portuguese and English: particular features (pluricentric languages) iii. Lingua-culture (comparative conceptual systems and linguistic systems) iv. Morphology (term formation): comparative terminology perspectives v. Terminography: terminological products vi. Term formation principles vii. Term formation methods: roots of the Portuguese and English languages (concordance; terminological context; terminological phrases)
3 - Module 3: Project i. Corpus selection and compilation ii. Data selection iii. Organization of databases iv. File compilation and synthesis v. Description and categorization of discursive communities: etymological, lexical, morphological, semantic and terminological specificities vi. Presentation and analysis of results, difficulties and opportunities

Literature/Sources:

R. Costa et al. , 2023 , A crossroad between lexicography and terminology work: Knowledge organization and domain labelling , Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38 (1-June)
Salgado et al. , 2022 , Applying terminological methods to lexicographic work: terms and their domains. , XX Eurolax
ISO/TC 12618 , 1994 , International Standardization Organization. Computational Aids in Terminology - Creation and Use of Terminological Databases and Text Corpora. ,
ISO/TC 12620 , 1999 , International Standardization Organization. Computer Applications in terminology- Data Categories; Part 1: Defining Parameters for Specifying Data Categories for Terminology Collections and Other Language Resources ,
ISO/TC 12620 , 1999 , International Standardization Organization. Computer Applications in Terminology - Data Categories, Part 2: Data category registry. ,
M. L. Homme , 2004 , La terminologie : principes et techniques. Montréal  , Montréal : Presses de l?Université de Montréal. 
A. A. Rosa , 2017 , Theoretical, methodological and terminological issues regarding indirect translation: An overview , Translation Studies 2:10
S. Bassnett , 2011 , The translator as cross-cultural mediator , The Oxford handbook of translation studies
M.-T. Cabré , 2010 , Terminology and translation , Handbook of Translation Studies Online. John Benjamins
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RAIMA , 2023 , Database Terminology - A Dictionary of the Top Database Terms. ,
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A. A. Rosa , 2012 , Translating place: Linguistic variation in translation | Traducerea spatiului: Variatia lingvistica în traducere , Word and Text 2 2
A. Sousa; G. Gouveia , 2022 , Multimodal glocal narratives in Madeira at a glance: Mr. Jorge Gordon?s Private Home Collection , Nitra:Verbum Praha
A. Sousa , 2021 , Research avenues revisited: Corpus linguistics and applications , LabCom: Linguistics and Philology Revisited. Contributos para a Instrumentalização das Humanidades D
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Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Student-centered and task-oriented methodology supported by teaching/learning for specific purposes, of reflective and collaborative kind, by oral and brief written assignments (pair and group work) and presentations. Interactive and activity-based approach - practising the language in order to develop students' interpersonal and professional communication skills; Linguistic analysis in the context of authentic sources (including work on corpora and terminology) supported by the translation of written texts. Assessment criteria: Continuous assessment - organisation of a database and a file (40% - 9 Points); contrastive analysis of specificities of the source and target languages ;(40% - 9 Points); presentation of the project in forum (20% - 2 points).