Translating Popular Fiction

Kayoko Nohara is Professor of Translation Studies and Science Communication at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She holds a DPhil in Translation Studies from Queen’s College, University of Oxford. She was previously a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Junior Lecturer at the University of Oxford, Assistant Professor at Gakushuin University and International Researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her publications, in Japanese, include Translation Studies in Discussions (2014) and, as co-author, Introduction to Science and Technology Communication (2009).

• CONTENTS: The Traditional Discussion of Equivalence and Its Relevance to the Japanese Context – Particular Challenges in Dealing with Translation between English and Japanese – Methodology of the Investigation and the Importance of a Systematic Text Comparison in Pop Fiction – Textual Analysis (I): Linguistic Domestication and Foreignisation – Textual Analysis (II): Cultural Domestication and Foreignisation – Stylistic Features of the Texts – Cultural Implications