Noriko Thunman's scientific contributions

Citations

... This power of language in its representation of place cannot be overstated -local dialects are found throughout Japan. Literature is also a site of the representation of place; this was Thunman's (2002) point in her study of translation in modern Japanese literature when she alluded to literature's tremendous power to represent place. One of the earliest examples of reference to place in modern literature was Kawabata Yasunari's (1899-1972) Snow Country, published in Japan in 1947and in English in 1956 instrumental in its author winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. ...