Japanese-English translation : an advanced guide / Judy Wakabayashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakabayashi, Judy, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Translating into English.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Judy Wakabayashi is Professor of Japanese Translation at Kent State University, Ohio. With experience as an in-house and freelance translator, she has taught Japanese-English translation to postgraduate students in Australia and the United States for over three decades. She has co-edited four books on translation--Asian Translation Traditions (2005), Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond (2009), Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (2012) and Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others (2019)--and translated seven books.

Contents:

1 Words p. 1

Beyond dictionaries p. 1

Semantic mismatch and culture-specific items p. 5

Abstract nouns p. 12

Affixes p. 13

Neologisms p. 16

2 Word groups and figurative language p. 21

Lexical collocations p. 21

Multi-character and abbreviated compounds p. 22

Doublets p. 23

Proverbs p. 24

Idioms p. 27

Metaphors and similes p. 29

Metonymy and synecdoche p. 34

Hyperbole p. 35

Allusions p. 35

Personal names p. 40

Terms of address p. 46

Organisation names and job titles p. 51

Names of laws and products p. 52

Eponyms p. 53

Place names and addresses p. 53

Initialisms, acronyms and abbreviations p. 55

4 Numbers p. 57

Numeric expressions p. 57

Inclusive vs. non-inclusive expressions p. 58

Approximate and exact expressions p. 59

Currency amounts p. 61

Units of measurement p. 61

Ordinal constructions and fractions p. 62

Time expressions p. 63

Alphanumeric combinations p. 66

Tables and phone numbers p. 67

5 Technicalities p. 70

Punctuation and symbols p. 70

Orthographical and typographical issues p. 81

6 Recurring grammatical issues p. 86

Verb orientation vs. noun orientation p. 86

Verb-based pseudo-topics p. 87

Non-verbal pseudo-topics p. 90

Topicalisation p. 91

Situation focus p. 92

Process orientation p. 94

Long sentences p. 95

Parsing p. 96

Word order p. 97

Passive constructions p. 100

Aspect and tense p. 101

Grammatical ambiguity p. 103

Non-specification p. 105

7 Rhetorical hedging and indirectness p. 108

Verbosity p. 108

Lexical ambiguity p. 110

Euphemisms p. 110

Jargon p. 112

Indirect expressions p. 115

Requests p. 116

Indirect forms of advice, command and prohibition p. 117

Phatic language p. 118

Sentence-final expressions p. 120

Self-effacing and self-deprecatory expressions p. 122

Rhetorical questions p. 122

The ubiquitous and all that jazz p. 124

8 Register, tone, emphasis, repetition and parallelism p. 129

Register p. 129

Tone and colour p. 131

Emphatic devices p. 134

Repetition p. 140

Parallelism p. 142

9 The spoken word p. 145

Speech representation p. 145

Quotations p. 147

Interactional particles p. 153

Keigo p. 154

Formulaic expressions p. 157

10 Non-standard varieties of language p. 161

Dialect p. 161

Male and female speech p. 167

Idiolect p. 168

Slang and swearing p. 169

Insults p. 171

Classical and literary forms p. 172

Archaic language p. 175

11 Languages interacting p. 178

Gairaigo and wasei eigo p. 178

False friends p. 180

Foreign expressions in Japanese texts p. 181

Deliberately unorthodox Japanese p. 184

Metalinguistic references p. 185

12 Translators at play p. 192

Wordplay p. 192

Phonological and prosodic effects p. 198

Mimetics p. 201

Slogans, catchphrases and mottos p. 206

Titles, headings and headlines p. 209

13 Discourse-level issues p. 213

Cohesive devices p. 214

Sentence connectives p. 215

Organisation within paragraphs p. 217

Paragraph breaks p. 218

Discourse organisation p. 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2020).

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Print version: Wakabayashi, Judy. Japanese-English translation

ISBN:

9781003018452

1003018459

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1000192393

9781000192377

1000192377

9781000192384

1000192385

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99985920348

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