A Study of Japanese Animation as Translation : A Descriptive Analysis of Hayao Miyazaki and Other Anime Dubbed into English

Reito Adachi

ISBN 10: 1612339484 / ISBN 13: 9781612339481

Edité par Dissertation.Com Okt 2012, 2012

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Neuware - Despite the growing popularity and influence of Japanese animation in America and other parts of the world, the importance of anime studies as audio-visual translation has not been well-recognized academically. In order to throw new light on this problem, the author attempts to clarify distinctive characteristics of English dubs of Japanese animated films between the 1980s and the 2000s, including Hayao Miyazaki's, in descriptive ways: through a corpus-based statistical analysis of vocabulary and a qualitative case study approach to the multimodal text from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.Discussing how translation norms have changed on the spectrum from target-oriented to source-oriented, the author carefully examines what kind of shift occurred to translations of Japanese animation around the turn of the 21st century. Whereas the pre-2000 translations tend to give preference to linguistic persuasion (i.e., a preference for expository dialogue that sounds natural to the American audiences), the post-2000 translations attach higher priority to achieving dynamic equivalence of the multimodal situations as a whole. The translation of anime has been rapidly increasing its rich diversity these few decades, opening up new possibilities and directions for translating its unique visual and iconic language.

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• Titre: A Study of Japanese Animation as Translation : A Descriptive Analysis of Hayao Miyazaki and Other Anime Dubbed into English
• Éditeur: Dissertation.Com Okt 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1612339484
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781612339481
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 170 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 170 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 512 grammes

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Despite the growing popularity and influence of Japanese animation in America and other parts of the world, the importance of anime studies as audio-visual translation has not been well-recognized academically. In order to throw new light on this problem, the author attempts to clarify distinctive characteristics of English dubs of Japanese animated films between the 1980s and the 2000s, including Hayao Miyazaki's, in descriptive ways: through a corpus-based statistical analysis of vocabulary and a qualitative case study approach to the multimodal text from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. Discussing how translation norms have changed on the spectrum from target-oriented to source-oriented, the author carefully examines what kind of shift occurred to translations of Japanese animation around the turn of the 21st century. Whereas the pre-2000 translations tend to give preference to linguistic persuasion (i.e., a preference for expository dialogue that sounds natural to the American audiences), the post-2000 translations attach higher priority to achieving dynamic equivalence of the multimodal situations as a whole. The translation of anime has been rapidly increasing its rich diversity these few decades, opening up new possibilities and directions for translating its unique visual and iconic language.