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河野裕子歌集『体力』にみる詩歌の翻訳
―英語短歌の定型とダッシュ―
結 城 文
翻訳と一口にいっても散文の翻訳と詩歌の翻訳とでは、その様相も求められるものも異なることは論を待たないことです。詩歌は言葉の華とも音楽ともいうべきもので、意味内容のみならず韻文としてのリズムや調べの美しさが、翻訳というフィルターを通った後までも伝えられなりません。
一昨年のIJET-13で、私達は日本の詩歌のなかでも最も長い歴史をもつ伝統詩、短歌の翻...
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A Proposal for the Creation of a New Translation Theory between Japanese and English by a Partial and Selective Union between Conventional Translation Theory and so-called Technical English Writing
Paper presented at the FIT Fourth Asian Translators' Forum
at Tsinghua...
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法務翻訳の専門性 ― よりよい協働のために
法務翻訳については、「専門用語が難しい」あるいは「似たような言い回しが多いのでそれを覚えれば難しくない」など様々な受けとめがあります。ただ、いずれにしても関心が用語のレベルに集中しているように思われます。「内容を正確に理解し適切に表現する」という翻訳の基本に照らしたとき、この分野に特有の難しさはあるか？ この点について、契約書翻訳についての日頃の経験を振り返りつつ、専門性につい考えてみました。
言葉を支える発想
ある日の父と子の会話。
子：お父さん、水族館行くよね、約束だよね
...From the Archives
A New Billing System
Edward Lipsett
Intercom, Ltd. is located in Fukuoka, handling work between (mostly) the four languages of English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. About half of our business comes from Kyushu and the remainder from clients in the Kanto region. In addition...
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黙って準備をし、黙ってブースを出る
セランド 修子 (Naoko Selland)
どうやって通翻の経験を増やすかは、これは通翻訳者にとって永遠の課題だろう。通訳と翻訳で共通して言えるのは、他のすべての業種に通ずることで、つまり実力がものを言うということである。多少サービスが悪かろうが、客は美味しい食事、上手い美容師には確実に付く。実力を生む場数とは、アウトプットまでの時間がごく短い通訳にとって、より必須であり、正確な語彙力、ヒアリング、理解力、聞きやすいアウトプットに至るには、もう経験以外ない。
...From the Archives
Translating and interpreting in the field of classical music
Introduction
Translators who work in the more “conventional” fields of software, business, patents or whatever, may or may not be aware of the surprising amount of work that exists out there in the rather more...
From the Archives
50 歳を目の前に専業翻訳者になって感じたこと
私が専業翻訳者になったのはごく最近だ。専業翻訳者になって感じたこは、翻訳は楽しいけれども辛いことも多いということだ。月並みな言葉でまるで小学生の作文だ。しかし心からそう感じている。
新卒後、勤めていたメーカーの仕事の一環で、翻訳には 20 年以上携わってきた。...
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On Translating Someone Else's (Emotional) Landscape
I grew up reading all sorts of books that had been translated into Japanese without really thinking what they would be like in their original languages. When I started to learn English in middle school, I was excited to...
Message from the speaker Ryo Morisawa on May 27 TAC Seminar
Concerning the May 27th TAC Seminar, How to Use Japanese Punctuation Marks: Understanding the "Totens of Thoughts" from Honda Dokuhon, the speaker made a blog post to tell us his appreciations and more thoughts;
State of JAT – March 2017
Greetings!
I’m writing to tell you what the Japan Association of Translators has accomplished over the past 12 months as we approach the end of JAT’s and Japan’s fiscal year on March 31, 2017.
JAT membership hovers at about 800. Half of JAT’s members live in Japan, and the...
TAC Tour of Printing Museum (in Japanese)
行ってよかった印刷博物館。
一度は行かないとなぁと思いつつこれまで過ぎてしまっていましたが、JAT（日本翻訳者協会）が企画してくださったので「いまだ！」と思ってそれに乗りました。ありがとうございます。
印象に残ったところを駆け足で書きます。...
Columbus, best city in world? Come see for yourself!
Have you heard?! Columbus ranks as Best City in the World! "It has the best library in the country, the best zoo in the country, the best science center in America, and America’s largest University. This may have led it to being known as the one of the 7 Smartest Cities in the...
Meeting Report: San Francisco JATTOOLS Meeting on 2016.11.03
The JATTOOLS SIG held its first meeting outside of JAT (Japan Association of Translators) with 16 translators in San Francisco on November 3, 2016.
While the SIG has been in existence for several years and has actively promoted discussion and hands-on demonstration of various...
The 2016 Anthology
JAT is pleased to announce this year’s anthology of insightful essays, Translator Perspectives, is available for downloading.
As translators and interpreters working between Japanese and English, we face myriad problems on a daily basis. Some of them have routine solutions....
IJET-27 Videos
We are gradually working through the process of uploading the videos that we recorded at IJET in Sendai. These are the sessions that are available so far.
Yuno Dinnie, あなたの腱鞘炎・腰痛・肩こり対策は間違っていませんか？〜長く続けられる仕事のやり方を考える〜
IJET-27 made the news!
IJET-27 made the news! See the write up in the Kahoku Shinpo on the very popular keynote presentation by Professor Shimodate and performance by The Shakespeare Company.
Technical Translation by Bill Lise
Bill Lise has recently provided documentation for his JAT pressentation on Technical Translation which he made in 1987. A bit outdated, you may think but think again! All JAT members, especially those specializing in technical translation (J to E), can greatly benefit from this...
22 Nov 2014 JATPHARMA Event Impressions
Written by David Mooney
Event name: JATPHARMA Kansai Event for Med/Pharma Writers and Translators
Time and place: 14:00~20:00 November 22, 2014 in Shin-Osaka
Please see the event page for further details of the event and the full profiles of each speaker.
The Gods of...