DSL3

LINK TO THE FINAL TEST (it will become active on Monday Jan. 26th)

There will be no classroom session on Monday, Jan 19th. Instead, please use this time to revise for the test.

Our end-of-semester test is planned for Monday, 26 January. It will be an online test based solely on the ten exercises below. You will have 24 hours to take the test. You may complete it at any time between noon on Monday, 26 January, and noon on Tuesday, 27 January. If you do not pass (which is unlikely), the make-up test will take place on Monday, 2 February. The minimum passing score is 50 percent.

How to take the test. Go to our site at any time between noon on Monday, 26 January, and noon on Tuesday, January 27th, click on the link to the on-line test form (at the top of the page), submit your answers within 40 minutes from opening the form. The time limit is orientational only, do not feel stressed, your answers will be accepted even if you go over the limit. Your semester grades will appear in USOS by Jan. 27th. 

How to revise for the test. Have a look at the ten exercise forms available below. Do not submit the forms but look for important questions that may have a (more or less) definitive answer. 

Contact me with any questions at jacek.wozny@uwr.edu.pl

Class 1.  Translation, they say (you know- "them"  - the anonymous collective), is transferring "meaning" from SL to TL. But what is linguistic meaning? How is language connected with human thought (reasoning, memory, perception of the world around us and so on, in one word - "cognition")? Is there a connection at all? Can meaning ever be transferred? Here is the link to your first task:  presentation/exercise form 1. Submit your answers before our next class.  

Class 2. Last week we enjoyed a lecture by Lera Boroditsky, this week we will host an even more prominent and vocal lecturer - prof. Stephen Pinker, who will be summarizing the findings of his blockbuster book "Human Nature and the Blank Slate" -  presentation/exercise form 2. Submit your answers by next Monday (optional if you attend the class).

Class 3. We are continuing our traslatology quest to find "the meaning of meaning". After all - meaning is every translator's bread and butter, this is what we do. Boroditsky and Pinker, brilliant as they both are, are still considered a young , third generation of cognitive linguists. This week our class is based on "Metaphors We Live By" - a seminal book by the "founding fathers" of cognitive linguistics: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. ; presentation/exercise form 3. Submit your answers by next Monday (Nov. 3rd).

Class 4. We will stay with the CMT (Conceptual Metaphor Theory) for a while but instead of the old rusty 1980's theory (Lakoff and Johnson) we will study its latest, brand new, cutting-edge application. I hope you'll enjoy it. Presentation/exercise form 4, submit your answers by Nov 17th (extended deadline - rector's day on Nov. 10th).

Class 5. Mark Turner, one of the founding fathers  of cognitive linguistics (the most inspiring of them, I think) on the origin of Ideas. Presentation/exercise form 5. Submit your answers by Nov 24th.

Class 6.  Metaphor as we already know is not just a figure of speech but a crucial cognitive operation and as such, it features prominently in the translation process. This is why we will stay for a while  in the enchanted woods of "visual metaphor", guided by the leading authority on the subject, the absolutely brilliant Prof. Charles Forceville. Presentation/exercise form 6, submit by Dec 1st.

Class 7. This week we will study Forceville's taxonomy of pictorial metaphors; presentation/exercise form 7 - submit your answers by Dec. 8th.

Class 8. Pictorial and multimodal metaphors in commercials; presentation/exercise form 8 - submit your answers by Dec. 15th.

Class 9. Translators do not just translate texts - they translate cultures. Here's the link to presentation/exercise form 9 , which is based on a fantastic 30-min. lecture by prof. Milton Bennet, the famous creator of Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS). Submit by Jan. 12th

Class 10. Language as a window into social relations. Stephen Pinker will finally explain why people are never honest with one another.  presentation/exercise form 10,  submit your answers by Jan 19th.

I will send you feedback for your exercises within a week from the submission deadline. Contact me with any questions at jacek.wozny@uwr.edu.pl Unabashedly yours, with kind regards, Jacek Woźny

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