Translating Japanese Texts

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By Lita Lundquist and Kirsten Refsing

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Translating Japanese Texts offers a practical and precise introduction to the challenges and strategies involved in translating Japanese. Targeted at translation students, teachers, and professionals, it explores how linguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, and cultural factors intertwine in creating texts. While primarily focusing on Japanese to English translation, the book also benefits those working with other target languages, providing a valuable resource for understanding the nuances and systematic differences between Japanese and English.
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This textbook is ideal for students and professionals of translation and language studies, as well as anyone interested in Asian languages and cultures, particularly through the perspective of translation between Japanese and English.

Intended for both students and teachers of translation, and professional translators, this book offers an introduction to problems of and strategies for translating Japanese texts. It focuses on Japanese and English and attempts to highlight differences between these two languages.

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Translating Japanese Texts by Lita Lundquist and Kirsten Refsing is a practical textbook and precise introduction to the challenges and strategies involved in translating Japanese texts. This book is aimed at both students and teachers of translation, as well as professional translators.

The theoretical foundation of the book posits that texts are created through the interplay between different levels of linguistic material and pragmatic, cognitive, and cultural mechanisms. The authors argue that all translation should consider these factors.

While the book primarily focuses on Japanese and English, highlighting systematic differences between these two languages, it will also be beneficial when translating Japanese into other languages. This makes it a valuable resource for translation in general.

The book will appeal not only to students and professionals in translation and language studies but also to individuals with a general interest in Asian languages, cultures, and ways of thinking. These elements are examined through the lens of translation from Japanese into English.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788763507776

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2009

Country: Denmark

Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 25.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 195

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Education & Reference Kirsten Refsing Lita Lundquist Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lita Lundquist contributes her research in text linguistics and her experience in teaching translation theory and practice at the Copenhagen Business School, where she is Professor of Language for Specific Purposes. Kirsten Refsing, formerly Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong and currently dean of Humanities at Copenhagen University, contributes her profound knowledge of the Japanese language and her teaching experience in translation.