Cursos de Lngua e Traduo

Ps-graduao em Ensino de Lngua Inglesa e Traduo de Ingls

Vocabulrio I
Professor Stephan Hughes
Aims
Conceptual objectives:

Learn lexical differences between varieties of English

Recognize characteristics of different types of English

Study the features of a global standard known as Global English

Procedural objectives:

"Translate" particular varieties to Standard English

Identify similarities and differences between different types of

English and their equivalents in Portuguese

Identify similarities and differences between Standard English and

a more internationalized version (Global English)

Attitudinal objectives:

Discuss the impact of varieties on translation and/or language

teaching

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of setting a Global

standard (Global English) as opposed to Standard English (British
or North American) in translation and language teaching

Choose the most efficient strategies in dealing with different types

of English in translation and language teaching

Abstract: regionalism; English varieties; linguistic phenomena;

specialized vocabulary; Britishisation x Americanization; American;
British; Canadian; Scottish; Irish; Caribbean - Jamaican, Trinidadian,
Guyanese; South African; Indian; Australian; differences in slang:
idioms x fixed expressions; strong, weak and fixed collocations;
intralingual false friends; norm-providing, norm-consolidating, normdependent; Global English; native speaker x non-native speaker;
intelligibility.
Initial Bibliography
BRUNER, J. (1986) Actual Minds, possible worlds. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
HILL, J. (1999) Collocational competence. English Teaching
Professional, 11, p. 3-6
Kachru, B.B. (1985). Standards, codification and sociolinguistic
realism: The English language in the outer circle. In R. Quirk and
H. Widdowson (Eds.), English in the world: Teaching and learning
the language and literatures (pp. 11-36). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
JOHNSON, K. (2001) An Introduction to Foreign Language
Learning and Teaching . Harlow : Longman
LEWIS, M. (1993) The lexical approach, LTP
THORNBURY, S. (1998) The lexical approach: a journey without
maps. MET, 7 (4), p. 7-13