AUSIT Webinar | 20210423 Translating Popular Science Texts from Japanese to English Part I

This is Part 1 of the two-part webinar series, where Tony Atkinson will present strategies for translating popular science texts from Japanese into English.

The topics to be covered will include the following:

Part 1 (23 April 2021)

• Differences between popular science texts and journal articles: characteristics of popular science texts and sources of texts for translation
• Translation of technical terms and phrases: research tips, proper nouns, units of measurement, loanwords, etc.
• Translation of non-technical terms and phrases that occur frequently in science texts: affixes, abstract nouns, change-related terms and phrases, representing scale, etc.
• Grammar, style, and usage in English science writing: tense, abbreviations, parentheses, dashes, etc.

Presenter – Tony Atkinson

Tony Atkinson is a freelance Japanese-English translator working mainly in the areas of medicine and drug development. However, he also enjoys translating science texts for the general reader. Several of his translations have been published online, covering areas as diverse as dark energy, emergent phenomena in physics, precision timekeeping with optical lattice clocks, seismic monitoring, and phytoplasmas. He has also recently translated The Winding Road to Discovering iPS Cells: The Life of Yamanaka Shinya (山中伸弥先生に、人生とｉＰＳ細胞について聞いてみた ), to be published in March 2021.