J Wakabayashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 419385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Wakabayashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakabayashi |
| SIGNATURE | WAKABAYASHI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6827-2641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
History of Translation
Translation historiography explores changes in the practice and conceptualization of translation over time and space, as well as their causes. This entry focuses on methodological and conceptual issues in and approaches to studying translation history, by drawing on insights from both translation studies and the field of history and by situating the work of translators within broader contexts. The approaches discussed include microhistory, book h…
Stress-testing Book History Models as a Framework for Studying Translations in Society
Book history models are stress-tested here by examining the agents and influences affecting translated books in the extreme circumstances represented by the American-led Occupation of Japan. Here an externally imposed system of simultaneous censorship and support dominated Japanese translations, both with the goal of reorienting postwar Japan towards democracy. Book history models are reevaluated in terms of their heuristic adequacy for translati…
Connected history and histoire croisée
Microhistory
Asian Translation Traditions
The pros and cons of commercial institutions as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan
This paper examines the potential and problems of commercial schools as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan. These private-sector institutions operate on a business model in a substantial market for translator training, primarily driven by for-profit motives rather than principles of translation pedagogy. Nevertheless, they meet a demand by providing students with practical training and a de facto ap…
History of Translation
Translation historiography explores changes in the practice and conceptualization of translation over time and space, as well as the causes of these changes.
Secular Translation
The first aboriginal intermediaries
The challenges of interlinguistic and crosscultural communication at their extreme are epitomized in the initial contacts between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians. After sketching the linguistic encounters of the Australian continent’s original inhabitants with Asians and pre-settlement European explorers, this paper focuses on the circumstances, role and representations of the first identifiable Aboriginal interpreters — man, woman, child — …
Translating Japanese texts
Translating Japanese texts, by Kirsten Refsing and Lita Lundquist, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009, 188 pp.+references and index. Webshop prices (www.mtp.dk): DKK135; $23; €18, ISBN 978-8
Fictional representations of author-translator relationships
This paper explores the nature and spectrum of relationships between authors and translators as identified in a corpus of fictional representations. Author-translator relationships offer fertile ground for fiction writers because of the frequent entangling of these two roles. These fictional constructions have the potential to offer theoretical insights into the creative nature and limits of translatorship and its overlapping with authorship and …
Decentering translation studies
Translational Japanese
In 1813 Friedrich Schleiermacher proposed a ‘special domain just for translations’, where things not permitted elsewhere are allowed. Quite independently, Japanese society has reserved for translations a separate but not marginalized area that has even affected original writing. With its recognizably translational origin or influence, this language (hon’yakuch?) blurs the lines and hierarchy between translating and original writing, and also the …
The Reconceptualization of Translation from Chinese in 18th Century Japan
Teaching Medical Translation
The main difficulties specific to medical translation are students' lack of medical knowledge and their unfamiliarity with medical terminology and phraseology. These difficulties can be partially overcome by a bilingual introduction to the key anatomical terms, diagnostic terms, symptomatic terms, operative terms, laboratory tests, and clinical procedures related to each of the body systems. Together with ample practice in actual translation, a m…
Where parody meets translation
Translation has been both a theme and a device in many parodic texts. Given the importance of both allusion and translation in Japan, it is hardly surprising to see parodies consciously exploiting translation. Contemporary parody in the guise of translation tends to focus on the comic possibilities of linguistic and cultural misunderstanding. The object of such parody is not confined to the translation of canonical literary texts but also extends…
Publications briefly noted
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper. EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia…
The death penalty in Japan
The pros and cons of commercial institutions as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan
This paper examines the potential and problems of commercial schools as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan. These private-sector institutions operate on a business model in a substantial market for translator training, primarily driven by for-profit motives rather than principles of translation pedagogy. Nevertheless, they meet a demand by providing students with practical training and a de facto ap…
Fictional representations of author-translator relationships
This paper explores the nature and spectrum of relationships between authors and translators as identified in a corpus of fictional representations. Author-translator relationships offer fertile ground for fiction writers because of the frequent entangling of these two roles. These fictional constructions have the potential to offer theoretical insights into the creative nature and limits of translatorship and its overlapping with authorship and …
Teaching Medical Translation
The main difficulties specific to medical translation are students' lack of medical knowledge and their unfamiliarity with medical terminology and phraseology. These difficulties can be partially overcome by a bilingual introduction to the key anatomical terms, diagnostic terms, symptomatic terms, operative terms, laboratory tests, and clinical procedures related to each of the body systems. Together with ample practice in actual translation, a m…
The death penalty in Japan
Publications briefly noted
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper. EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia…
Where parody meets translation
Translation has been both a theme and a device in many parodic texts. Given the importance of both allusion and translation in Japan, it is hardly surprising to see parodies consciously exploiting translation. Contemporary parody in the guise of translation tends to focus on the comic possibilities of linguistic and cultural misunderstanding. The object of such parody is not confined to the translation of canonical literary texts but also extends…
Teaching Medical Translation
The main difficulties specific to medical translation are students' lack of medical knowledge and their unfamiliarity with medical terminology and phraseology. These difficulties can be partially overcome by a bilingual introduction to the key anatomical terms, diagnostic terms, symptomatic terms, operative terms, laboratory tests, and clinical procedures related to each of the body systems. Together with ample practice in actual translation, a m…
The Reconceptualization of Translation from Chinese in 18th Century Japan
Decentering translation studies
Translational Japanese
In 1813 Friedrich Schleiermacher proposed a ‘special domain just for translations’, where things not permitted elsewhere are allowed. Quite independently, Japanese society has reserved for translations a separate but not marginalized area that has even affected original writing. With its recognizably translational origin or influence, this language (hon’yakuch?) blurs the lines and hierarchy between translating and original writing, and also the …
Fictional representations of author-translator relationships
This paper explores the nature and spectrum of relationships between authors and translators as identified in a corpus of fictional representations. Author-translator relationships offer fertile ground for fiction writers because of the frequent entangling of these two roles. These fictional constructions have the potential to offer theoretical insights into the creative nature and limits of translatorship and its overlapping with authorship and …
Secular Translation
The first aboriginal intermediaries
The challenges of interlinguistic and crosscultural communication at their extreme are epitomized in the initial contacts between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians. After sketching the linguistic encounters of the Australian continent’s original inhabitants with Asians and pre-settlement European explorers, this paper focuses on the circumstances, role and representations of the first identifiable Aboriginal interpreters — man, woman, child — …
Translating Japanese texts
Translating Japanese texts, by Kirsten Refsing and Lita Lundquist, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009, 188 pp.+references and index. Webshop prices (www.mtp.dk): DKK135; $23; €18, ISBN 978-8
History of Translation
Translation historiography explores changes in the practice and conceptualization of translation over time and space, as well as the causes of these changes.
Asian Translation Traditions
The pros and cons of commercial institutions as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan
This paper examines the potential and problems of commercial schools as an alternative venue for training translators and publishing translations in Japan. These private-sector institutions operate on a business model in a substantial market for translator training, primarily driven by for-profit motives rather than principles of translation pedagogy. Nevertheless, they meet a demand by providing students with practical training and a de facto ap…
Connected history and histoire croisée
Microhistory
History of Translation
Translation historiography explores changes in the practice and conceptualization of translation over time and space, as well as their causes. This entry focuses on methodological and conceptual issues in and approaches to studying translation history, by drawing on insights from both translation studies and the field of history and by situating the work of translators within broader contexts. The approaches discussed include microhistory, book h…
Stress-testing Book History Models as a Framework for Studying Translations in Society
Book history models are stress-tested here by examining the agents and influences affecting translated books in the extreme circumstances represented by the American-led Occupation of Japan. Here an externally imposed system of simultaneous censorship and support dominated Japanese translations, both with the goal of reorienting postwar Japan towards democracy. Book history models are reevaluated in terms of their heuristic adequacy for translati…
Translation Studies and Practices (11 works) · History (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Translation (biology) (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works)