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雑誌記事における翻訳方略 : 「たとえ」のイメージ（例え・譬え・比較）をどう訳すか

Translation Strategies of Magazine Articles : How ‘linguistic images’ of example, metaphor and comparison are translated

国際文化学研究 : 神戸大学大学院国際文化学研究科紀要

39

43-60

神戸大学大学院国際文化学研究科

2013-01

2013-06-05

The aim of this paper is to examine the extent ‘linguistic images’ of example, metaphor, and comparison are modified in magazine translation. An abstract explanation which is difficult to understand can be immediately grasped or made clear by giving a good example or metaphor, but a good example in the source text is not always good in the target text. Japanese and German translations of 100 linguistic images from the National Geographic are analyzed in quality and quantity. The outcome of the analysis is that Japanese and German translators used only about half of the images, while the other half were changed, deleted or added. For example “Mycenae” was translated into “remains of ancient Greece”; “a poisonous curtain” into “a divider”; “2600-acre” into “bigger than Narita airport” and many images were deleted.

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