한중 번역과 한영 번역에 나타나는 고맥락과 저맥락 양상 비교 - 채식주의자를 중심으로

Abstract

Korean and Chinese are included in the language group in high-context cultures, while English is included in a typical low-context language. Considering the fact that translation is part of communication, analyzing translation strategies based on contextual differences is an important factor of considering readers in each culture. Therefore, this study aims to present translation strategies according to contextual differences by analyzing translation strategies in the translation of between the high-context culture and the low-context culture and between the high-context culture and the other high-context culture. And for the analysis, the study focused on the novel the Vegetarian, which has both English and Chinese translations. First, we analyzed the Korean-Chinese translation, where omission and reduction strategies appeared a lot. And then, the Korean-English translation was compared. As a result, the study found that the same text was translated without deletion or addition of meaning in the Korean-English translation. To look at the addition strategy, which is mainly used when translating from a high-context language to a low-context language, we analyzed the translation strategy by focusing on Korean-English translation cases. The results showed that the English version tended to be more specific in describing situations and contexts, while the Chinese version tended to be almost identical to the original or omit them. We also analyzed translation strategies for verbs and nouns, based on the characteristics that verbs were developed in the high-context culture, relationship-oriented one, and nouns were developed in the low-context, individual-oriented one. As a result, verbs were usually translated in nouns in the English translation, while the Chinese translation tended to utilize more verbs than the Korean original.