Slaves speak pseudo‐Toohoku‐ben: The representation of minorities in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind1
Slaves speak pseudo‐Toohoku‐ben: The representation of minorities in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind1
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奴隶说伪东北本:日文版《乱世佳人》中少数民族的代表1
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10.1111/j.1467-9841.2009.00406.x
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2009
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M. Hiramoto
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This study provides linguistic evidence that the use – and non-use – of Standard Japanese (SJ) in literary translation indexes social marginality in two societies (Japan and Southern American), and is based on socio-economic distribution rather than actual linguistic distribution. The main focus of this study is the investigation of the intertextuality and the transduction of the speech of the minority characters (namely, male and female slaves and poor whites) in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind (GWTW). While it is certain that the minority characters’ use of non-Standard Japanese – which strongly resembles the stigmatized Toohoku dialect, or Toohoku-ben (TB) – is a translation of the original non-Standard English (SE), the assignment to them of something resembling a particular regional Japanese dialect reinforces linguistic inferiorization of the slaves and poor whites, as well as TB speakers. The use of this pseudo-dialect is an important element in the linguistic representation of marginal characters and likewise underscores the salient marginality of TB in Japanese language ideology. The original English GWTW text employs eye-dialect orthography to portray the minority characters’ speech, thus the use of non-SJ in the translation may be understood as interstitial interdiscursivity. However, assigning speech styles to characters based on a specific regional dialect, namely TB, requires a different explanation. Following Ochs’ (1990) model of indexicality, I suggest that the use of pseudo-TB serves to directly index the characters’ non-standardness, and therefore to indirectly index the stigmatization associated with TB. Furthermore, the non-normativity reproduced through this intertextual stigmatization due to the use of pseudo-TB conclusively serves to stereotype the enslaved men and
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