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This chapter describes the application of a novel approach – emotional discourse analysis (EDA) – to the study of emotion words in a particular language and text, as well as the possibilities for using EDA as a translational tool. The research is an attempt to devise a consistent framework for literary classification of emotions, which is illustrated using a modest corpus of Japanese and Russian literary texts. Examples discussed from the comparative perspective of EDA include the translational equivalence of common interjections involving divine names (e.g., “Oh my God!”) and terms related to the metaphorical notion of “heart.”
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Holoborodko, A. (2018). Emotional Discourse Analysis of Japanese Literary Translations. In: Hebert, D. (eds) International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68434-5_6
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