Slaves speak pseudo-Toohoku-ben: The representation of minorities in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind1Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/2, 2009: 249–263 RESEARCH NOTE Slaves speak pseudo-Toohoku-ben: The representation of minorities in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind1 Mie Hiramoto National University of Singapore INTRODUCTION This study provides linguistic evidence that the use – and non-use – of Standard Japanese (SJ) in literary translation indexes social marginality in two societies
