패스트푸드 중국어 명칭에 대한 형태·음운론적 고찰

Abstract

In this paper, it was examined how the names of fast foods were translated into Chinese. The Chinese usually translate the meaning of food's name. Otherwise, at first, they use a Chinese transliteration of a foreign word, and then use the translated words in Chinese. In this case, the number of syllables of a Chinese transliteration is usually tallied with the number of syllables of the original name. Sometimes, the words with l -initial were transcribed into the characters with n- initial, and the syllables with -n ending were transliterated into the characters with -ŋ ending. There are also some vocabularies that seem to have been transcribed first in the southern Chinese dialect, which has an entering tone. Tart was transliterated into 挞 which still has -t ending in southern dialect, and shake was transliterated into 昔 which still has -k ending in southern dialect. When translating compound words, most follow the order of the original language, making the words in the order of recipe + ingredient name + food type. If morpheme 熱, 冷 is used to describe the state of food, it is used in front of the morpheme that describes the recipe.