Mimetics

SPANISH: En este trabajo analizamos algunos de los procesos de interpretación que han de desarrollarse cuando se aborda la traducción de las expresiones onomatopéyicas japonesas, con frecuencia acusadas de altamente intraducibles por su indeterminación, dinamicidad e interpretación libre por el receptor. Nuestro objetivo es reflexionar sobre la capacidad de análisis lingüístico y literario que el traductor precisa cuando trata estas unidades, incluso en un texto que en apariencia se presenta simple, como es un cuento infantil. Para ello tomamos la obra Kusahara (2008), de Yukiko Kato.
Partiendo de una presentación de las onomatopeyas japonesas, estudiamos las unidades presentes en el texto. A través de varios ejemplos, tratamos principalmente el neologismo, la derivación y la omision verbal. Aunque este trabajo aborda únicamente la interpretación y las consideraciones lingüísticas que posteriormente conducen al proceso de producción en la lengua meta, también presentamos traducciones que ofrecen las publicaciones en inglés, italiano y francés.
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ENGLISH:
In this paper we analyse the interpreting processes used in the translation of Japanese onomatopoeic expressions, which are often labelled as being highly untranslatable due to their vagueness, dynamism and the recipient's loose interpretation of them. Our objective is to reflect on the capacity of linguistic and literary analysis which the translator requires when dealing with them, even when one particular work may apparently seem simple, such as a children's story: Yukiko Kato's Kusahara (2008).
Starting off with an introduction to Japanese onomatopoeias, we study the expressions present in the text. Using several examples, we specifically tackle neologisms, derived forms and verbal omissions. In this paper we deal exclusively with the interpreting process and linguistic considerations that subsequently open the way towards the production process. Although we are not dealing with the creative task of translation, however, we offer a few solutions found in the English, Italian and French versions.

Efforts to replace native peroxidase with its low molecular weight alternatives have stimulated a search for peroxidase mimetics. Herein we describe the oxidation of luminol with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by commercially available Fe(III)-TAML activator 1a, which was shown to be a more active catalyst than hemin. At Fe(III)-TAML activator 1a use in chemiluminescent assay for H2O2 determination the detection limit value (3σ) of 5×10(-8)M was similar to the detection limit obtained with horseradish peroxidase (1×10(-7)M) and significantly lower than that obtained in the presence of hemin (6×10(-7)M). The linear ranges (R(2)=0.98) of the assay were 6×10(-8)-1×10(-6)M and 6×10(-7)-1×10(-6)M H2O2 for Fe(III)-TAML 1a and hemin, respectively. The CV values for Fe(III)-TAML 1a-based assay measured within the working range varied from 1.0% to 3.7% (n=4), whereas in the case of hemin -5.0% to 9.7% (n=4). Moreover, the sensitivity of Fe(III)-TAML 1a-based method was 56 and 5 times higher than that of hemin- and HRP-based methods, respectively. The obtained results open good perspectives to apply Fe(III)-TAML activator 1a in CL analytical methods instead of hemin, a traditionally used peroxidase mimetic.