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Four-Character Idioms and the Rhetoric of Japanese Shakespeare Translation

dc.contributor.authorGallimore, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-19T08:11:58Z
dc.date.available2021-10-19T08:11:58Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-30
dc.identifier.issn2083-8530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/39434
dc.description.abstractYoji jukugo are idioms comprised of four characters (kanji) that can be used to enhance the textuality of a Japanese Shakespeare translation, whether in response to Shakespeare’s rhetoric or as compensation for the tendency of translation to be carried out at a lower textual register than the source. This article examines their use in two translations each of Julius Caesar by Matsuoka Kazuko (2014) and Fukuda Tsuneari (1960) and of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Matsuoka (2001) and Odashima Yūshi (1983); in both cases Matsuoka uses significantly more yoji jukugo than her predecessors. In the Julius Caesar translations their usage is noticeable in the set speeches by Antony and Brutus in 3.2, and commonly denote baseness or barbarity. In the Merry Wives translations they commonly denote dissolute behaviour, often for comic effect, and can even be used malapropistically in the target language.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMulticultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance;38en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectJapanese writing systemen
dc.subjectyoji jukugoen
dc.subjectMatsuoka Kazukoen
dc.subjectidiomatic expressionen
dc.subjectvisualizationen
dc.subjectclassical rhetoricen
dc.subjectmalapropismen
dc.titleFour-Character Idioms and the Rhetoric of Japanese Shakespeare Translationen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number13-41
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationKwansei Gakuin University, Japanen
dc.identifier.eissn2300-7605
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dc.contributor.authorEmailgallimore@kwansei.ac.jp
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-8530.23.02
dc.relation.volume23


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