The use of discourse analysis to understand the characteristics of texts; translating various types of texts from English to Turkish; discussing the problematic points in translation and finding ways of dealing with them. Students translate a variety of different authentic English texts into Turkish from diverse areas, within a contrastive analysis framework, students also engage in error analysis tasks in which they critically evaluate the appropriateness of the various translations of the same text paying attention to the idiosyncrasies regarding the unique nature of Turkish and English and its comparison to their own translation by employing different translation skills. The course also includes introduction to discourse analysis; structure of spoken interaction; socio-pragmatic constraints on interaction; speech act analysis; cross-cultural speech act analysis; workplace communication; coherence in spoken discourse.