Business Translation Practice (Spanish-Portuguese)
Code
711111093
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Marco António Franco Neves
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To acquire basic knowledge of company organization and business activities.
b) To develop translation skills in related subjects.
c) To develop linguistic competence in comprehension of written Spanish and production of written Portuguese.
Prerequisites
Spanish ability equivalent to level A2.2.
Subject matter
Theoretical aspects:
1. Economic, financial and administrative aspects of a company. Human resources management.
2. The importance of translation in business communication.
Practical aspects:
3. Working on tasks to identify lexical, semantic and syntactic difficulties encountered in a variety of business texts.
4. Translation of various kinds of texts related to the different aspects of business activity.
Bibliography
AA.VV. (2005). Vocabulario de derecho administrativo. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto.
VAGEHUCTEN, L. (2005). El léxico del discurso económico empresarial: identificación, selección y enseñanza en español como lengua extranjera con fines específicos. Madrid: Iberoamericana.
MONDRIA, J. (2004). Diccionario de la Comunicación Comercial. Madrid: Ediciones Díaz de Santos.
MARTIN, F. (2003). Aspectos del léxico económico-empresarial. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia.
MARCOS MARIN, F. (1998). El Comentario Lingüístico, Metodología y Práctica. Madrid: Cátedra.
Periódicos espanhóis e portugueses da área da especialidade.
Teaching method
The unit will be taught using a combination of theoretical lectures and practical classes during which the students engage in various research and analysis tasks in order to acquire knowledge about the subjects studied and specific vocabulary.
Evaluation method
Written translations of selected texts, pre-prepared and personally presented in class (60%) and a final written translation test (no consultation allowed) (40%).