Overseas Professors Lecture Arrangements (1)

Overseas Professors Lecture Arrangements (1)

Overseas Professors Lecture Arrangements (1)

Speaker: Dr. Tan Huimin:

Dr. Tanreceived her doctorate from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, servesas a research fellow at Institute of Language and Information Science, CityUniversity of Hong Kong, and the Computer Sciences Department of Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology. She has taught at Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity of Singapore and the National University of Singapore. Recently sheteaches at the College of Foreign Languages of Ningbo University. Her research and teaching covers modernChinese, modern Chinese language, sociolinguistics, translation history, theoryand practice of translation, etc., and she mentors PhD students in ChineseLinguistics and Translation Studies. She has published books such as "AComparative Study of Language and Translation", "Chinese Marches tothe World" and "Perspectives on Language," and co-authoredpapers such as ContrastiveLinguistics: History, Philosophy and Methodology, publisheddozens of papers in English.

Curriculum: [interested students may apply with a counselor]

Annex - Course Outline

COURSE: Chinese Language and Culture 

1.         Hours: 24  

2.Content:  

1. Introductionto the Han Chinese Language and Culture    

ChineseCulture Overview, Language Perspectives of Chinese Culture, Chinese and ChineseCulture  

2. CulturalPerspective of Chinese Characters    

AncientChinese Characters and Culture, Construction of Chinese Characters

3. ChineseWords and Culture    

Motivation,word formation and deep cultural and psychological meaning

4. Chinesesyntax and Culture    

Syntaxand flow of "Qi", the cultural characteristics of word order  

5. ChineseDialects and Culture     

  Fossildialects, dialect and folk culture 

6. HanChinese Langue and Culture Contact    

  Languagecontact, Chinese language and religion, geographic variation, cultural distancein translation  

7. PrimaryEducation Research Overview and Modern Language Studies  

Session Two: History of Translation Theory andPractice (A Survey of Translation Theories and Practice )

1.Hours: 24  

2.Content:  

1. Introductionto the History of Translation Theory

i. Whystudy Translation History

ii. TranslationHistory connotation

iii. ResearchElements

iv. Periodization  

3. Evolutionof Chinese translation history and translation principles

i. Majortranslation climax

ii. thehistorical background of the development of the principles of translation

iii.  Translation Practice in Debates

iv. thecharacteristics of Chinese Translation Theory

v. ChineseTranslation Theory operability in practice  

4. ModernEvolution and Development Viewpoints

i. definition translation

ii. the natureof translation

iii. Translationinterdisciplinary theoretical challenge

iv. Theimpact of modern translation operation  

C,work / research / oral report range (Provisional Draft):

TranslationEvaluation and discussion on the translation

Relationshipspecific historical events and translation theory / principles

Discussionon Murakami’s translation views

Informationtechnology in Translation