Japaneseenglish Translation - An Advanced Guide

This textbook is for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

This textbook is for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional 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.

Product details

• Authors: Judy Wakabayashi, Judy (Kent State University Wakabayashi, Wakabayashi Judy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2020
• EAN: 9780367863340
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86334-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; English, Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Translation & interpretation, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Translation and interpretation