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
Biography
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.
