낙선재본 중국소설의 번역 양상

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine translation characteristics of linguistic elements of Nakseonjae-bon Seolwalmae-jeon. As part of the search on Nakseonjae-bon Seolwalmae-jeon, this study examines translation characteristics of this work in a sentence unit among components such as vocabulary, short sentence, sentence, etc. As to the specifi c research method, the translation methods used by the translator in the translation work of Nakseonjae-bon Seolwalmae-jeon are classifi ed to maintenance, substitution, and omission. Maintenance means to represent the original text as it is. It is divided mainly to verbal translation and loan translation. Substitution means to substitute the original text with the corresponding hypernym or hyponym. Th is method is used commonly for words that depict the daily life. Finally, omission means to omit a part of the original text intentionally in the process of translation because it is not closely related to the story development or not appropriate for the expected class of readers. In addition to such linguistic elements, style translation characteristics of Nakseonjae-bon Seolwalmae-jeon also will be examined. It is expected that the fi ndings of this study contribute to evaluating translation aspects of Nakseonjae-bon Seolwalmae-jeon more objectively.Seolwol-mae jeon collected in the Nakseonjae can be evaluated more objectively through this study.