한국어 초급 교재에 나타난 중국어 대조 번역 오류 연구 - 충실성과 가독성을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study Chinese contrast translation errors in Korean Elementary Textbooks based on the concept of Fidelity and Readability, which are the concepts of translation studies. First, the concept of Fidelity and Readability was considered. Fidelity means that the content and meaning of the source text are accurately conveyed, and Readability is defined as meaning that the translation is appropriate and natural to the target language within the range that does not damage the meaning of the source text. Based on this, considering both Fidelity and Readability as the translation standard, four types of Korean Elementary Textbooks were selected, and translation errors among them were analyzed by type. The analysis results can be divided into three categories. First, it is possible to classify and analyze the types of treason errors in Korean textbooks from a translational perspective beyond the existing linguistic perspective. Second, translation errors can be broadly divided into two categories: ‘translation with reduced Fidelity’ and ‘translation with reduced Readability’. Translation errors with reduced Fidelity can be classified into three types: ‘not revealing enough meaning’, ‘distortion of meaning’, and ‘typing mistake’. Translations errors with reduced Readability can be divided into three types: ‘direct translation’, ‘sentence component defect’, and ‘excessive use of modifiers’. Third, Compared to ‘translation with reduced Fidelity’, ‘translation errors with reduced Readability’ accounted for more weight. Among them, errors that deteriorated Readability due to ‘direct translation’ and ‘sentence component defect’ occurred the most, which is considered to be due to differences in expression habits and word order between Korean and Chinese.