Cultural Interference and Linguistic Transfer in The Tale of Genji
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"Knowing about" a language, rather than "knowing" a language, has long been considered very important in language transfer studies, and has received considerable attention in the study of second language acquisition. This paper looks into different translations, such as Waley, Seidensticker, and Tyler, of the Tale of Genji in order to understand how cultural interference may have affected western translators. The translatorial index is designed to show the degree of language transfer occurring in English translations of the Tale of Genji for the aesthetic words by testing the hypothesis that those aesthetic words associated with higher emotional content should have higher degree of language transfer. The results of this study could not refuse the hypothesis that aesthetic words with emotional factor are likely to be associated with relatively higher degree of language transfer in all three translations. Particularly, it is noticeable that Waley's translations show lower figures of the translatorial index. However, one should be cautious to draw any affirmative conclusion from this outcome because the results are prone to misinterpretation. Nonetheless, this study renders an indicative for hermeneutic views to understand the state of minds of the translators when they were pondering on the best possible counterparts from their own cultural settings.
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"Knowing about" a language, rather than "knowing" a language, has long been considered very important in language transfer studies, and has received considerable attention in the study of second language acquisition. This paper looks into different translations, such as Waley, Seidensticker, and Tyler, of the Tale of Genji in order to understand how cultural interference may have affected western translators. The translatorial index is designed to show the degree of language transfer occurring in English translations of the Tale of Genji for the aesthetic words by testing the hypothesis that those aesthetic words associated with higher emotional content should have higher degree of language transfer. The results of this study could not refuse the hypothesis that aesthetic words with emotional factor are likely to be associated with relatively higher degree of language transfer in all three translations. Particularly, it is noticeable that Waley's translations show lower figures of the translatorial index. However, one should be cautious to draw any affirmative conclusion from this outcome because the results are prone to misinterpretation. Nonetheless, this study renders an indicative for hermeneutic views to understand the state of minds of the translators when they were pondering on the best possible counterparts from their own cultural settings.
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