This course is concerned with the comparative description of the morpho-syntax of Chinese and Portuguese, Chinese and English, and Portuguese and English. For the English-Chinese Specialization, the course is designed to compare and contrast English and Chinese in major linguistic aspects. We survey the relevant literature and introduce several theoretical concepts and analytical frameworks, drawing implications for translation studies. The aim is to develop students’ competence to conduct contrastive linguistic analysis and draw relevance to translation studies. Learning activities consist of workshops, in-class discussions, tasks and projects. For the Portuguese-Chinese and Portuguese-English Specializations, the course is concerned with the comparative description of Chinese and Portuguese / English and Portuguese in morpho-syntax, lexical semantics and text, with the aim of provide the students with the necessary methodological tools to perform a thorough analysis of the source text and produce an equivalent target text.

CILO-1: Demonstrate knowledge of current research in contrastive language studies. CILO-2: Demonstrate an understanding of major linguistic differences between Chinese and English. CILO-3: Make use of relevant linguistic concepts and theoretical frameworks to conduct contrastive analysis. CILO-4: Analyze how some linguistic differences are related to practical translation issues.