Translating ESP: Tourism and Hospitality

Fall/2017

Course: AN20102BA

Time and place: Tuesday 16.00-17.40, Room 54

Instructor: Dr. Tóth Ágnes

Office: Room 108/1

Office hours: 18.00-18.50

Contact: agnestoth.dr@gmail.com

This seminar aims at establishing a solid vocabulary of tourism and hospitality so that students can rely on proper technical terms when translating documents (contracts, promotional leaflets, texts meant for the interested public, etc.) from English into Hungarian and from Hungarian to English.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS and EVALUATION CRITERIA

Students are expected to do the weekly assignments and come to class prepared and ready to take part in the discussion and activities.

Apart from the week-to-week translations to be prepared, students will have to do project work, which comprises translating a chapter from a tourism book: Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001475/147578e.pdf).

Students will have to write at least two substantial word tests and some random shorter ones.

Attendance and active participation in class discussions. 20%

Quizzes and word tests: 30 %

Individual project work: 20%

In-class end-term paper: 30%

Schedule of classes and topics

Week 1 (12 September) – Orientation; Setting the stage: definition, concepts

Week 2 (19 September) – Tourism I: types, branches, trends

Week 3 (26 September) – Tourism II: Transport and supporting services

Week 4 (3 October) – Destinations

Week 5 (10 October) –Hotels I: types, structures, ranking, services, etc.

Week 6 (17 October) – Hotels II: the front office; management

CONSULTATION WEEK

Week 7 (24 October) The travel agency

Week 8 (7 November) – The travel guide I: from Romanesque cathedrals to Art Noveau

buildings;

Week 9 (14 November) –The travel guide II: Art history

Week 10 (21 November) – Hospitality: Chefs and restaurants

Week 11 (28 November) – End-term paper

Week 12 (5 December) – Discussing evaluating project work

Week 13 (12 December) – Summing up and closing down

Readings: Electronic course-packet provided by the course instructor

Recommended readings:

Fekésházi, Márta-Máthé Krisztina, Toursism in Focus. Budapest, 2008.

Horváth, Andrea-Horváth Krisztina: English in Tourism. Budapest: Képzőművészeti

Könyvkiadó, 2003.

Klaudy, Kinga. Bevezetés a fordítás gyakorlatába: angol, német, orosz fordítástechnikai példatárral. Budapest: Scholastica, 2007.

Please, browse the e-catalogue of DEENK for other useful sources on translation.