2123145 - Tumacenje japanskog teksta

Course specification
Course title
Acronym		2123145
Study programme
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Dalibor Kličković
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		3.0	Status
Condition		Completion of the Contemporary Japanese Language G-4 course is required.	Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		The aim of the course is to develop fundamental skills in reading and interpreting complex texts in Japanese, primarily literary texts. The Japanese language contains elements whose meaning is largely context-dependent, and, due to its distinctive lexical, grammatical, and syntactic features, every act of reading constitutes a hermeneutic experience that requires the continuous verification of assumed meanings at all levels of the text. The course therefore aims to develop both procedural and intuitive skills in understanding Japanese texts.
The outcome		Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to read original Japanese literary texts of intermediate difficulty independently. They will learn to identify and critically analyse the features that distinguish literary texts in Japanese from media texts and other types of writing. The knowledge acquired will serve as a foundation for further studies in Japanese literature and can be applied in subsequent coursework, enabling students to develop a high level of reading proficiency in the field of Japanese literature.
Contents
Contents of lectures		The theoretical component of the course will introduce students to several representative stylistic patterns and variations of Japanese literary texts. The text will be approached as a formalised whole, historically and phenomenologically constituted, which fulfils both aesthetic and cognitive functions through the particularities of individual examples and the diversity of its discourses. At the same time, it may present a challenge, particularly to foreign readers, prompting responses initially at the micro-level of language and subsequently at higher structural levels, where language functions as both a medium and a constituent of identity, epistemology, and ideological paradigms. The theoretical component will address these and other general and specific premises necessary for establishing communication with a foreign culture through the medium of prose fiction.
Contents of exercises		Practical classes will consist of exercises based on specific texts. These texts will be analysed at different levels of meaning, ranging from basic lexical and grammatical features to higher-level stylistic and thematic dimensions. The corpus will comprise original excerpts from modern Japanese prose fiction and essays, covering the full range of modern Japanese language usage.
Literature
Refsing, K. & Lita L. (2011) Translating Japanese Texts, Museum Tusculanum Press and the authors, Copenhagen, (Original title) Hasegawa, Y. (2012) The Routledge course in Japanese translation, Routledge. (Original title) Donovan, R. (2019) Translating Modern Japanese Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Original title) Marra, F.M. (ed.) (2002) Japanese hermeneutics : current debates on aesthetics and interpretation, Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
1	1
Methods of teaching		The theoretical component of the course will be delivered through lectures and presentations based on previously assigned reading materials. The practical component will involve individual and group work, including the independent completion of practical assignments based on the prescribed texts.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		15	Test paper	70
Practical lessons		15	Oral examination
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