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This lecture is held as a component of JAPN465: Japanese
Media and Translation.
Date & Time:
Octob
er 1 | 5pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
This
lecture will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. Re
gistration is required. Please see the bottom of this page to register for
this event.
This paper investigates how Japanese translators use Japanese gendered features in translating the speech of non-Japanese women and men (Inoue 2003\; Shibamoto Smith 2004). The data consists of the trans lated speech in English and Russian literary works\, TV dramas\, films and newspaper interview articles. Based on the methodology of discourse analysi s\, Dr. Momoko Nakamura examines the occurrences of feminine and masculine features in the wide range of media discourse (Nakamura 2013). The analysis shows: 1) Japanese translators overwhelmingly use feminine features in tra nslating non-Japanese women’s speech\, and 2) while they also employ mascul ine features in translating non-Japanese men’s speech\, with respect to the casual\, laid-back speech of non-Japanese men\, they have created a specif ic Japanese style used only in the translation of the speech. The findings suggest: 1) the predominant use of feminine features for the speech of non- Japanese women works to naturalize Japanese femininity beyond linguistic an d ethnic boundaries\, and 2) the invention of the style for non-Japanese me n serves to enregister the Japanese stereotype of non-Japanese casual mascu linity\, depending on which Japanese masculinity maintains its idealized st atus. In sum\, this paper contributes to elucidating the inter-lingual inte rsections of gender construction.
Momoko Nakamura\, Ph.D. is Professor of English at Kanto Gakuin University\, Japan. Her research
interest includes linguistic construction of gendered\, sexualized identity
and discursive formation of gendered styles. She is the author of Jibu
nrashisa to nihongo [Identity and Japanese] (2021\, Chikuma shobo)\, <
em>Shinkeigo ‘majiyabaissu’: shakaigengogaku no shiten kara [New Honor
ifics “Majiyabaissu”: A Sociolinguistic Approach] (2020\, Hakutakusha)\,
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