Case Studies of Cross-Cultural Communications in German Translation of Japanese Literature

翻译是一个跨文化交际的过程，其最终产物是能够在特定情景和使用语境中发挥适当功能的文本。在翻译研究中，交际过程的一些决定因素，如文本类型、目的、媒介、受体等，对翻译过程也很重要。本研究在翻译研究成果的基础上，提出了一种翻译分析与评价的方法，并将该方法应用于实际案例，对日本文学翻译的源文本和译文进行了比较。这一对比显示了许多日德两国在语言和文化上存在实际障碍的案例。本研究还包括日本文学在德国翻译中的接受情况报告。我访问了柏林国家图书馆和柏林市图书馆，以调查柏林图书馆拥有哪些德语翻译的日本文学作品，以及这些书的阅读频率。

Translation is a process of cross-cultural communication, whose end product is a text which is capable of functioning appropriately in specific situations and contexts of use. In translation studies some determinants of communication process which are also important for the translation process are now clear, for example Text-type, purpose, Medium, Receptor. On the base of results of translation studies this research proposed a method for analysis and evaluation of translation, applied this method to actual examples and compared source texts and target texts of Japanese literature translations. The comparison shows many cases which go across actual linguistic and cultural barriers between Japan and Germany.This research contains also the report on reception of Japanese literature by German translation. I visited the National Library in Berlin and a City Library of Berlin, in order to investigate, which Japanese literary works in German translation are owned by libraries in Berlin and how often these books are read.