Judy Wakabayashi

Japanese-English Translation (eBook, ePUB)

An Advanced Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a textbook for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional Japanese-English translators and for translator educators. Underpinned by sound theoretical principles, it provides a solid foundation in the practice of Japanese-English translation, then extends this to more advanced levels. Features include:

• 13 thematic chapters, with subsections that explore common pitfalls and challenges facing Japanese-English translators and the pros and cons of different procedures
• exercises after many of these subsections
• abundant examples drawn from a variety of text types and genres and translated by many different translators

This is an essential resource for postgraduate students of Japanese-English translation and Japanese language, professional Japanese-English translators and translator educators. It will also be of use and interest to advanced undergraduates studying Japanese.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000192391
• Artikelnr.: 60116026

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1 Words
2 Word Groups and Figurative Language
3 Names
4 Numbers
5 Technicalities
6 Recurring Grammatical Issues
7 Rhetorical Hedging and Indirectness
8 Register, Tone, Emphasis, Repetition and Parallelism
9 The Spoken Word
10 Non-standard Varieties of Language
11 Languages Interacting
12 Translators at Play
13 Discourse-level Issues

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Contents

1 Words

2 Word Groups and Figurative Language

3 Names

4 Numbers

5 Technicalities

6 Recurring Grammatical Issues

7 Rhetorical Hedging and Indirectness

8 Register, Tone, Emphasis, Repetition and Parallelism

9 The Spoken Word

10 Non-standard Varieties of Language

11 Languages Interacting

12 Translators at Play

13 Discourse-level Issues