2022/05/08 by Gabriele Camilleri · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Gender Studies in Language #Translation Studies and Practices
paper · doi:10.13128/lea-1824-484x-13651
openalex publication_date 2022/05/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/06
In Japanese popular media, various associations are made between character types and speech styles, a concept known in Japanese linguistics as “role language”. This study consists of a qualitative analysis of five Japanese translations of Italian works of fiction, carried out by examining the speech style of each character. The aim of this paper is to investigate how language markers associated with the “elderly man” role language category are employed in Japanese translations of foreign works, and how their distribution compares with their use in native Japanese media.