Overall objectives:

1 - The objective of this discipline (Curricular Unit) is to present different difficulties in the translation work - from Portuguese (Vietnamese) into French or vice-versa. To this purpose, the lecturer draws on her own research ouput undertaken in this domain, by borrowing from literary corpora (excerpts) written in the source language (Portuguese) and their published translation into the target language - French. Different contrastive approaches shall be developped thanks to cultural and linguistic specificities in each language : Portuguese and French (two closed romance languages) or Vietnamese and French (two opposite languages, from different origin). Translation Studies entail the discovery of linguistic and cultural characteristics of the afore mentioned languages.

Syllabus:

1 - Madeira Island, the source of inspiration of the contemporary narrative. Cohesion and coherence issues caused by Portuguese - French translation.
1.1 - Linguistics and Literary Corpora
1.2 - Text selection: the contemporary narrative
1.3 - Madeira Island, the source of inspiration of the contemporary narrative
1.4 - Textual cohesion and coherence
2. - Interlinguistic and intercultural translation studies in proverbs: French/Portuguese/Vietnamese
2.1 - Proverbial crisscrossed journey: linguistic and cultural messages in the approach to languages
2.2 - Corpora selection
2.3 - The interlinguistic and intercultural proverbial complex paths in French/Portuguese/Vietnamese
2.3.1 - The trilingual coincidence in proverbs: similarity in concept, support, semanticism and morphology-syntax
2.3.2 - Conceptual coincidence and linguistic divergence
2.3.3 - Different support and same concept
2.3.4 - The same linguistic support and the same concept in different geographical and cultural contexts
2.4. - Interlinguistic and intercultural transfe in trilingual proverbs
3. - How to interpret the frequent absence/ellipsis of the grammatical subject in Portuguese: Portuguese/French contrastive and pragmatic perspective
3.1 - The frequent ellipsis of the gramatical expression of the subject pronoun,Portuguese inner characteristic
3.1.1 - The multiple values of the null /zero subject pronoun in Portuguese: how to interpret and translate them into French
3.1.2 - The subject pronoum of the 3rd person singular in Portuguese, its allocutory use
3.1.3 - The fundamental presence of the noun phrase/syntagm substitute: the case of ambiguity and the case of emphasis
3.1.4 - The grammatical polysemy of the verb SER (to Be)
3.4. - A rich interpretation of the subject null grammatical expression ellipsis in Portuguese
4. - Proposed topics for students practical work projects and their discussion

Literature/Sources:

RIEGEL, M., PELLAT, J.-C. & RIOUL, R , Grammaire méthodique du français ,
Jean-François JEANDILLOU , 1997 , L'analyse textuelle , Armand Colin
Maria Isabel M. Baião dos Santos, João Paulo F. Tavares & Thierry P. dos Santos , 1997 , Narrativas contemporâneas da Madeira/Récits contemporains de Madère , N. Jardim - João França - Carlos Cristovão - Ernesto Leal - - Irene Lucilia Andrade - José Carvalho
Jean-Michel Adam , 2006 , Introduction textuelle, Introduction à l'analyse textuelle des discours , Armand Colin
Dominique Maingueneau , 2003 , Linguistique pour le texte littéraire , Nathan Université, Lettres Sup.
André Joseph Panckoucke , 2006 , Dictionnaire des proverbes françois et des façons de parler avec l'explication et les étymologies les plus avérées , Elibron Classics
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa & Fundação Calouste Gulbekian , 2001 , Dicionario da Lingua Portuguesa Contemporânea da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa , Verbo
Claver Zouogbo Jean-Phlippe , 2009 , Le proverbe entre langues et cultures. Une étude de linguistique confrontative allemand/ français/bété , Peter Lang
Maria Elisete Almeida , 2000 , La deixis en portugais et en français , Editions Peeters Louvain-Paris
Teyssier, Paul , 1992 , Manuel de langue portugaise Portugal - Brésil , Éditions Klincksieck. Paris
Cunha, Celso / Cintra, Lindley , 2002 , Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo , Edições João da Costa - Lisboa, Viseu
Saramago, José , 1995 , Ensaio sobre a cegueira , Lisbonne, Caminho, O Campo da Palavra (12.aedição
Patrick Charaudeau - Sous la direction de Patrick Charaudeau, Dominique Maingueneau , 2002 , Dictionnaire d'analyse du discours , Éditions du Seuil
Saramago, José, Traduit du portugais par Geneviève Leibrich , 1997 , Blindness (L'aveuglement) Traduit du portugais par Geneviève Leibrich. Points. Ouvrage traduit avec le soutien de la communauté européenne , Éditions du Seuil
Maillard Michel , 1994 , Concurrence et complémentarité de il et ça devant les prédicats impersonnels en français contemporain ou comment distinguer une phrase asubjectale d'une phrase à sujet indistinct ? In: L'Information Grammaticale, N. 62 ,

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
The Curricular Unit (UC) 'Translation Studies' is constituted by both, theories and practices activities, based on Portuguese original books and their translation. Their analyses are always realized through the constant contrast between languages (Portuguese / French / Vietnamese) aiming at determining and discovering their respective linguistic and cultural characteristics. Mastering both the source language and the target language is the key issue of the UC in which methodology requires examples or illustrations in the theoretical and practical applications which represent two prerequisite parameters in its success. The UC assessment is defined through an observation and analysis work achieved based on a corpus proposed by the teacher or by students themselves. The work presentation will be an oral and written project (100%). Attendance to classes is compulsory (90%).