Великотърновски университет “Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Филологически факултет
катедра “Англицистика и американистика”
Програма
за устен държавен изпит на студентите
от магистърска програма по лингвистика и превод
Устният държавен изпит включва следните компоненти:
1. Два въпроса от теоретичния материал /по един от следните два дяла:
І. Общотеоретични дисциплини – прагматика, синтаксис и семантика;
ІІ. Превод и съпоставително езикознание.
2. Превод на произволно зададен специализиран или художествен текст с коментар.
І. Общотеоретични дисциплини
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Прагматика
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Ways of defining pragmatics: as competence and performance; as the grammaticalized aspects of context; as meaning over and above truth conditions. Sentence meaning and utterance meaning.
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Implicatures. Specific features of conversational implicatures: defeasibility and non-detachability. Kinds of conversational implicature.
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Presupposition. Semantic and pragmatic approach. Presupposition triggers. Presupposition and context.
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Austin's theory of speech acts. Performative verbs and felicity conditions. Explicit and implicit performarive utterances. Кinds of speech acts according to Austin.
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Searle's contribution to the theory of speech acts. Preparatory, sincerity and essentia1 conditions. Types of illocutionary acts according to Sear1e.
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СИНТАКСИС И СЕМАНТИКА
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The nuclear predication: the predicate frame, arguments and satellites, selection restrictions.
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The typology of states of affairs: parameters and configurations of functions.
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Semantic functions.
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Syntactic functions: the semantic function hierarchy (SFH), Subject and Object assignment.
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Pragmatic functions: extra-clausal and intra-clausal pragmatic functions, Topic and Focus.
II. ПРЕВОД И СЪПОСТАВИТЕЛНО ЕЗИКОЗНАНИЕ
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ПРЕВОД
1. Equivalence and equivalent effect in translation. Types of translation equivalence. Translation shifts/transformations in the context of equivalence.
2. The limits of translatability. Cultural terms and realia in translation: types of adaptation.
3. Language function, text type and translation. Appellative text type – advertising in translation. Specific features of advertisements. Translation problems and solutions.
4. Specialized languages in the context of translation: scientific and technical language, legal language, the language of official documents. Linguistic aspects of term formation. Documentation in translation.
5. Literary texts in translation. Genre-specific features. Expressive means and stylistic devices (phonetic, lexical and syntactic). Linguistic and cultural issues in literary translation.
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СЪПОСТАВИТЕЛНО ЕЗИКОЗНАНИЕ
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Contrastive analysis as interlanguage study: the Interlingua; criteria for comparison; translation equivalence; Transfer theory and contrastive analysis.
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Linguistic components of Contrastive ana1ysis: Levels of language description; Categories of grammar: unit, structure, class, system.
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Microlinguistic Contrastive analysis: General principles; Language models for grammatical Contrastive analysis.
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Macrolinguistics and Contrastive analysis: Text analysis; Discourse analysis.
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Contrastive analysis and Error analysis.