Japanese-English Translation

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.

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 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