Comparative Stylistics and Translation
French Studies · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall/Winter Only
FREN-3111 prerequisites
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Where FREN-3111 counts
Counts toward 3 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:
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Description
In this course, French is studied by being contrasted with English in a comparative lexicology and comparative grammar approach. Linguistic divergence is examined at the lexical level (e.g. semantic values, stylistic variants, linguistic interference), the grammatical and syntactic levels (e.g. gender, modifiers, modal auxiliaries, word order), and the pragmatic level, with a focus on cultural strategies (e.g. sentence segmentation into translation units, modulation, grammatical transposition). Translation strategies are explored so as to address the distinctive lexical, grammatical, syntactic, and pragmatic features of each language.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours in 2000-level French Studies courses, including 3 credit hours in 2000-level language or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and LING-3311.
Cross-listed
LING-3311(6).
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