Translating Japanese texts / Kirsten Refsing and Lita Lundquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Refsing, Kirsten, author.

Lundquist, Lita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Translating.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Written Japanese--Translating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen, Denmark : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translating Japanese Texts is a practical textbook and a precise introduction to problems of and strategies for translating Japanese texts, aimed at both students and teachers of translation, and professional translators. The theoretical foundation is that texts are created by means of interplay between different levels of linguistic material and pragmatic, cognitive and cultural mechanisms. The authors claim that all translation should hence take such factors into consideration. The book focuses on Japanese and English and attempts to highlight systematic differences between these two languages, but will be useful when translating Japanese into other languages than English and for translation in general. The book will be of interest not only for students and professionals of translation and language studies, but also for people generally interested in Asian languages, cultures and worlds of thought, seen through the lens of translation from Japanese into English.

Contents:

""Front cover""; ""Titlepage""; ""Colophon""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Grammatical Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Japanese - English language pair""; ""Units of meaning, units of translation""; ""Strategies and choices""; ""Organisation of the book""; ""Part I: The Source Text and Global Strategies for its Translation""; ""Chapter 1. The source text as text""; ""1.1 Texts as coherent linguistic units""; ""1.1.1 The unit of the text""; ""1.1.2 Inferences""; ""1.2 Texts as mental representations""; ""Chapter 2. Analysis and understanding of the source text""

""2.1 Questions to be addressed when analysing a source text""""Checklist of questions""; ""1. Topic""; ""2. Contextual anchoring""; ""3. Sender's attitude""; ""4. Argumentative direction""; ""5. Sender's intention""; ""6. Function""; ""7. Text genre""; ""8. Explicit coherence between sentences""; ""2.2 Analysing a Japanese source text""; ""Topic""; ""Contextual Anchoring""; ""Sender's attitude""; ""Argumentative direction""; ""Sender's intention""; ""Function""; ""Genre""; ""Explicit coherence between sentences""; ""Chapter 3. Strategies for transferring the source text""

""3.1 Global strategies""""3.1.1 Examples of choosing a global strategy""; ""3.1.2 Respecting genre""; ""3.2 Local strategies""; ""3.3 Losses and gains""; ""Part II: Units of Translation and Local Strategies for their Transfer""; ""Chapter 4. Micro-units I: The word and beneath""; ""4.1 Semes""; ""4.2 Morphemes""; ""4.3 Words and compound words""; ""4.4 Fixed terms""; ""4.5 Culturemes""; ""Chapter 5. Micro-units II: Phrases""; ""5.1 Syntactic phrases""; ""5.2 Fixed expressions""; ""5.2.1 Collocations""; ""Noun-verb collocations:""; ""Adjective-noun collocations:""; ""5.2.2 Idioms""

""Verbs:""""Adverbs:""; ""Phrases:""; ""5.2.3 Metaphors""; ""5.2.4 Proverbs and sayings""; ""Chapter 6. Macro-units of translation: The sentence and beyond""; ""6.1 Sentences""; ""6.2 Linked sentences""; ""6.3 Referential coherence - simple anaphors""; ""6.3.1 Unfaithful anaphors""; ""6.3.2 Resumptive anaphors""; ""6.4 Semantic, or rhetorical coherence""; ""6.5 Connectors""; ""6.6 Argumentative markers""; ""6.7 Mental space builders""; ""Part III: The Target Text and its Revision""; ""Chapter 7. Mega-units and revision of the target text""; ""7.1 Textual fit and intertextuality""

""7.1.1 Not respecting intertextuality in Language 2""""7.2 Genre""; ""7.3 Text types""; ""7.4 The final touch""; ""Postscript""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Back cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

87-635-3730-3

OCLC:

932310776