Constructing the image of Japan as a tourist destination: translation procedures for culture-specific items.
This study investigates translation procedures employed for culture-specific items (CSIs) in Japanese tourism texts. Quantitative corpus-based methods were used to examine a unidirectional parallel corpus of texts gathered from websites promoting tourism to regional destinations. The aim of the anal...
| Published in: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 407 - 426 |
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