소설 『82년생 김지영』의 번역에서 나타난 젠더 표현 양상에 대한 고찰 - 여성문말표현을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper studies translation strategies employed in the Japanese translation of the novel “Kim Ji-young, born 1982”, a so-called feminist novel, focusing on female sentence-final words used in the Target Text. The paper first gives clear definitions of female words and female sentence-final words and classifies sentence-final words spoken by female characters in accordance with ages and episodes. The result is as follows: the most frequently used sentence-final words are ‘yo, ne, no, mono, noyo, and wa’ with ‘yo’(51 times) and ‘ne’(42) showing the highest frequency followed by ‘noyo’(11), ‘no’(9), ‘mono’(9) and ‘wa’(3). The paper further compares most frequently used female sentence-final expressions in TT with equivalent expressions in ST. Based on the suggestions of Mizumoto (2007) stating that ‘yo’ is used to oppose, criticize or complain about the way the other character behaves and to assert one’s opinion or position to correct the other character’s behavior, the main character ‘Ji- young’ uses ‘yo’ 13 times and Oh Mi-sook, Ji-young’s mother, 20 times, respectively, showing much higher usage frequency compared to other female figures. The paper further explores for situations where ‘yo’ is used by Kim Ji-young and Oh Mi-sook according to ages and episodes based on high usage rate of the expression.