Class Notes and Homework Assignments
Share details from classmates’ translations of Eileen Chang and E.B. White
Discussion of “foreignization” and “domestication”
Work on your final project
(Optional: peer feedback)
Read classmates’ translations of Lu Xun or Christian Wiman
Readings: “Global Flows of Translation” and “On Translating Garbage”
Metaphor cont’d (Here is New York)
Introduction to ambiguity
Decide on your final project, message me
(Optional: prepare early draft for peer feedback)
Read classmates’ E.B. White and Eileen Chang translations
Translate short poem (Lu Xun or Christian Wiman)
Reading on domestication vs. foreignization
Workshop: metaphor
Talk to me about your final project
Translate paragraph from Eileen Chang or E.B. White
Discuss En-Ch translation challenges
Due Friday: Translator’s Note for Challenge 2
Due next class: Improve a passage
Start thinking about final project
Discuss Ch-En translation challenges
Due next class: Be ready to discuss En-Ch translation challenges
Due Friday: Translator’s Note for Challenge 2
Share sample passages, talk about “voice” and “function”
Due Sunday: Challenge 2 translation draft
Due Tuesday: Read classmates’ English translations and be ready to discuss
Share revised passages
Introduction to “voice”
Start coordinating with classmates for Challenge 2
Preview Challenge 2 texts, think about “voice” and “function”
Find a text to serve as inspiration
Supplementary readings: Lu Xun, Lewis Carroll, Jay Rubin
Share Challenge 1 translation drafts (cont’d)
Finish translator’s note (due Friday midnight BJT)
Exercise: improve a short passage
Share Challenge 1 translation drafts
Read classmates’ translation drafts
Work on translator’s note (reflection) for Challenge 1 (due Friday)
Reading from The Mirror of Translation
Share ad translations
A few words about challenges
Work on museum placard translation together
By midnight on Monday (China time): finish translations for Challenge 1
Before next class: read classmates’ translations
Preview grading criteria
Compare Chinese versions of “Ad” poem
Genre and conventional language
Analyzing conventions of advertising slogans
“Translate” three advertising slogans
Research conventions of English-language museum placards
Make rough translation of bronze lamp placard
Find a model for translating quarantine hotel notice
Supplementary reading: Bellos Chapter 26
Talking about “context” in Chinese
Context and genre
Translating a note on the fridge
(Optional) Translate “This Is Just to Say…”
Work with classmates to translate “Ad”
Read translation challenge menu, submit preferences
Read excerpt from 《西天寺》“Paradise Temple”
Supplementary reading from 《翻译之镜》
Intro to the course, self-introductions
Translating sentences out of context
Skim syllabus and read course handbook
Translate out-of-context sentences multiple ways
Share an interesting passage
Send a screenshot of your course schedule
Reading: Bellos Chapter 7
