著者

横山 知幸

出版者

広島市立大学国際学部

雑誌

広島国際研究 (ISSN:13413546)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, pp.141-157, 2015

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This article investigates word order differences in English-Japanese translation. The first half of this article focuses first on the word order differences between English and Japanese from the viewpoint of linguistic typology, and second on historical developments of interlinear word-for-word translation in Japan. The latter half of this article analyzes a nineteenth-century English self-study book, which has interlinear word-for-word Japanese translation with numbers indicating the order for translating English words into Japanese words. This type of self-study book is the prototype for the basic translation method in Japan. A simple computer program for the data analysis software called "R" was written to analyze the order for translating English words into Japanese words. The results explain some important aspects of how and why a few word order differences between English and Japanese develop into complicated zigzag patterns in the basic translation method in Japan.