Presenters: audra lincoln, Lorelei Brand, Evan Laufman Session Title: Panel Discussion: Formal T&I Training Programs--What's So Great About Training Anyway? Review Author: Tsukumo Niwa Sattler As someone who is new to the profession, I highly appreciated seeing a … [Read more...]
Book Review: Japanese-English Translation – An Advanced Guide by Judy Wakabayashi (Routledge, 2021)
Japanese-to-English is recognized by many as one of the hardest-to-translate major language pairs because of the linguistic and cultural distances between the two languages. Even compared to the other direction, Japanese-to-English translation is more difficult, I think, because … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Translating Racially Sensitive Passages and Other Minefields
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J1 Thursday, Nov 05, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PMSession Summary bySarah LindholmIn this session, the Japanese Language Division’s 2015 Distinguished Speaker, Juliet Winters Carpenter, used various excerpts from an as-yet-unpublished thirty-page … [Read more...]
ATA 2015: Challenges of Literary Translation: Finding your Voice
ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J-4Friday, Nov 06, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSession Summary byPatricia PringleJuliet Winters Carpenter shared with us the various types of challenges and choices she faces as she translates Japanese literary works. She gave us some idea of the … [Read more...]
