L0708 - RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION I

courses

ID:

L0708

Duration (hours):

60

CFU:

SSD:

SLAVISTICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Annuale (03/10/2025 - 31/05/2026)

Course Objectives

The aim of the course is to advance students from level B2.1 (reached at the end of the three-year course) to level B2.2/C1.1 of the CEFR. In particular, the educational objectives of the course include: - Complete mastery of all grammatical structures (morphological and syntactic) of Russian language.- The acquisition of a high level lexical competence. - The acquisition of some disciplinary lexicons. - The understanding of specialized articles, from which to draw the main information. - The understanding of long and complex texts, with the identification of relevant information. - The development of specialist translation skills from Russian into Italian and from Italian into Russian.

Course Prerequisites

Knowledge of Russian language at the level B2 (after ending three years of studies L11-L12).

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons of the teacher with the use of multimedia material. The language practice, carried out by the mother tongue CEL, for 70 hours per year, is an integral part of the course.

Assessment Methods

Written exam:

Grammar test

Listening
Text's analysis
RU-IT translation
IT-RU translation of complex sentences.

The exam materials will be tailored to the text types and vocabulary introduced in class.

The oral exam, accessed after the written examination, consists of:

a conversation in Russian with the CEL;
an oral comment and analysis of a text in Russian;
conversation in Russian on the contents of the theoretical materials about lexicography and discourse typologies.

Texts

Teaching manuals:M. Perotto, “Kommunikativnyj analiz nechudožestvennogo teksta dlja studentov-magistrantov RKI”, FUP, Firenze 2023 (free download in open access: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/%E2%80%94%E2%80%94-/13973);L. Poutsileva, Lessico Russo. Lessicologia e fraseologia. Teoria e pratica, CLUEB, Bologna 2003.C. Cevese - J. Dobrovol’skaja, Sintassi russa. Teoria ed esercizi, Hoepli, Milano 2005.E.R. Laskareva, Progulki po russkoj leksike, Zlatoust, Sankt-Peterburg 2010.E. Cadorin, I Kukuškina, Il russo per l'azienda. Corrispondenza commerciale. Documenti legali. Dizionario commerciale, Milano 2014 (solo le pagine fornite in pdf)N. Malinin, Tradurre il russo, Roma: Carocci Editore, 2012.D.V. Kolesova, A.A. Charitonov, Pišem ėsse, SPb 2011. Ju. Dobrovolskaja, L’ABC della traduzione, Hoepli 2016A. Ceccherelli, L. Costantino, C. Diddi, Translation theories in the Slavic Countries, Salerno 2015.For in-depth studies and individual exercises - N. I. Formanovskaja, Stilistika složnogo predloženija, Moskva: URSS, 2007 - M. Krongauz, Russkij jazyk na grani nervnogo zryva, Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskich kul'tur, 2009 - S.K. Miloslavskaja (a cura di), Rossija-Italija: Dialog kul’tur. Posobie po čteniju i razvitiju reči dlja ital’janskich studentov-gumanitariev, Moskva: IRJA im. A.S.Puškina, 2011 - G.L. Skvorcova, Glagoly dviženija bez ošibok, Moskva: “Russkij Jazyk” Kursy, 2006 (4° ed.) (Biblioteca Unificata, polo UdA Pescara) - E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina, Verbo e sintassi russa in pratica, Milano: Hoepli, 2007 (Biblioteca Unificata, polo UdA Pescara).- Testy, testy, testy. II sertifikacionnyj uroven’. Posobie dlja podgotovki k sertifikacionnomu ekzamenu po leksike i grammatike, SPb 2010 (dispense)For self-testing and solutions of spelling, morphosyntax and reading problems: ; ; ; https://где-ударение.рф, . Dictionaries: Bol’šoj tolkovyj slovar’ russkogo jazyka, Sankt-Peterburg: Norint, 2000 e successive ed. A very wide choice of dictionaries of the standard Russian language and its micro-languages is available on the website:

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary for the following activities: translation, production, stylistic analysis of the vocabulary of texts of various genres with a view to enhancing language skills and the ability to understand, analyse and translate the Russian text. Attention will be paid to different language registers and lexical enrichment. The programme consists of 4 modules- Consolidation of morphosyntactic structures of level B2:- Introduction to lexicological analysis;- Syntactic and phrasal synonymy;- Russian-Italian translation.