Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory
Jiří Levý’s 1966 paper "Translation as a Decision Process" applied game theory to translation studies in an attempt to characterise and explain the decision-making processes of the translator and the linguistic and socio-cultural forces that inform these processes. The current paper employ...
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| description | Jiří Levý’s 1966 paper "Translation as a Decision Process" applied game theory to translation studies in an attempt to characterise and explain the decision-making processes of the translator and the linguistic and socio-cultural forces that inform these processes. The current paper employs some of his conclusions in the context of Japanese-to-English literary translation, addressing in particular the vexed issue of disambiguation. It draws upon examples from Kawabata Yasunari’s novella Izu no odoriko, and its published English translations The Izu Dancer by Edward G. Seidensticker and The Dancing Girl of Izu by J. Martin Holman. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1843b3ba776342ddb0cf7ac1455c60a52022-12-21T18:21:35ZengThe International Academic ForumIAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities2187-06162187-06162012-08-0111598110.22492/ijah.1.1.04Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game TheoryRichard Donovan0Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, JapanJiří Levý’s 1966 paper "Translation as a Decision Process" applied game theory to translation studies in an attempt to characterise and explain the decision-making processes of the translator and the linguistic and socio-cultural forces that inform these processes. The current paper employs some of his conclusions in the context of Japanese-to-English literary translation, addressing in particular the vexed issue of disambiguation. It draws upon examples from Kawabata Yasunari’s novella Izu no odoriko, and its published English translations The Izu Dancer by Edward G. Seidensticker and The Dancing Girl of Izu by J. Martin Holman.https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-1-issue-1/article-4/game theoryliterary translation studiesdisambiguation |
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| title | Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory |
| title_full | Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory |
| title_fullStr | Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory |
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| title_short | Decision-Making and Disambiguation in Japanese-to-English Literary Translation: An Application of Game Theory |
| title_sort | decision making and disambiguation in japanese to english literary translation an application of game theory |
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