International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies

Part 1. Introduction and Keynote Speeches.- Chapter 1. Translation, Education, and Innovation: Editorial Introduction; David G.Hebert.- Chapter 2. From Shizen to Nature: A Process of Cultural Translation; Nanyan Guo.- Chapter 3. Life and Death of East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage; Keith Howard.- Part 2. Translational Issues in Literature.- Chapter 4. Translating Scientific Discourse in Ariyoshi Sawako's Fukugo Osen; Barbara Hartley.- Chapter 5. Foreigner Talk or Foreignness: The Connection Between Foreigner Talk and the Language of Westerners in Japanese Fiction; Erik Oskarsson.- Chapter 6. Emotional Discourse Analysis: An Attempt at Contrastive Analysis of Japanese Literary Translations; Alexandra Holoborodko.- Part 3. Analyses of Korean and Japanese Languages.- Chapter 7. Definiteness in Korean: A Contrastive Study between Korean and Italian; Imsuk Jung.- Chapter 8. Unmarked Plurality and Specificity in Korean and Japanese Plural Nouns: A Preliminary Study; Kiri Lee, Young-meeYu Cho, and Min-Young Park.- Chapter 9. A Creative and Innovative Approach to Korean Communicative Language: Morphonological Features and Word-Formation Processes; Vladislava Mazana.- Chapter 10. "My Funny Talk" Corpus and Speaking Style Variation in Spoken Japanese; Toshiyuki Sadanobu.- Chapter 11. Kansai Style Conversation and its Role in Contemporary Japan; Goran Vaage.- Chapter 12. The Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language: Forensic Linguistics in Japan; Mami Hiraike Okawara.- Chapter 13. Linguistic Studies of Interpreters' Renditions and their Possible Contribution to the Quality Control of Community Interpreting: A Data-Based Study on Court Interpreting in Lay Judge Trials in Japan; Makiko Mizuno.- Part 4. Language Education.- Chapter 14. On the Teaching of Japanese Epistemic and Evidential Markers: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications; Lars Larm.- Chapter 15. Analysis of Kanji Reading and Writing Errors of Swedish Learners of Japanese in Comparison with

David G. Hebert is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. A widely-published scholar of global music and international-comparative education, he frequently lectures for China Conservatory in Beijing and previously held positions with universities in the USA, New Zealand, Finland, Brazil, and Russia, as well as in Japan with the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Tokyo Gakugei University, and Yamanashi Gakuin University. He is author (or co-author) of such books as Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools, Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education, and Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Professor Hebert has recently given keynote speeches for conferences in Poland, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, China, Tanzania, and Uzbekistan. A contributor to 30 different professional journals, he has served on doctoral committees for universities in the USA, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Spain. Professor Hebert is on the Editorial Boards of such journals as Arts Education Policy Review, Journal of Music and Meaning, Journal of Research in Music Performance, and Research and Issues in Music Education.