A Diachronic Comparison of the English Translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Animated Works

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The purpose of this paper is to identify any trends in the English translations of Hayao Miyazaki's recent animated works from a diachronic point of view. Six of Miyazaki's animated works have been translated into English two or more times. Quantitative and qualitative researches are performed on the different translated versions of these animated works. A metrical comparison between the initial and subsequent translated versions shows a shift in emphasis from liberal to literal translation around the year 2000. However, several elements such as pauses and silences, figures of speech, and taboos remain culture bound and, thus, defy literal translation. Finally, the subsequent translated versions appear to be more faithful than the initial ones to the source text and the multimodal situations, such as screen images and sounds, thus maintaining the sense-for-sense equivalence as an audiovisual entertainment.
2012-03-31