‘보다’와 ‘看’의 인지의미와 대역 관계 연구

Abstract

This paper analyzes the prototypical meanings and extended meanings of the Korean word‘보다’and the Chinese word‘看’. Based on the comparative analysis of their generality and differences, it makes an in-depth analysis of the actual situation of the corresponding translation of the two words by utilizing the Korean-Chinese Parallel Corpus. Both‘보다’and ‘看’have the common prototypical meanings, with the implications of “seeing with one’s own eyes”, which refers to the visual contact activity taking the objects as targets. They have similar extended meanings in terms of “watch”, “read”, “guard”, “consider” etc. Through analyzing the 240 pairs of example sentences from the Korean-Chinese Parallel Corpus, 147 sentences, accounting for 61% of the total, have been translated as “see”, which implies the prominent common characteristics between the two words. In terms of the extended meanings such as “witness”, “watch”, “read”, “encounter”, “fend for”, “observe” and “guard”,‘보다’and‘看’are either translated correspondingly or the word of‘보다’is translated as the synonyms of‘看’, such as “catch sight of”, “look over”, “look at”, “gaze at”, “stare at”, “peer” and “glance” etc. The result of the analysis indicates that when it involves the translation of literary works, the translator would usually take the stylistic effect of the target language-Chinese and its parataxis feature into account. While compared with the written language, the interpretation of the text should consider more about the author’s pragmatic strategy.