翻訳に現れる役割語に関する考察 -『ハリー·ポッターと賢者の石』の 英日·英韓の翻訳文を研究対象に -

Abstract

When we compare and contrast translation practices between Korean and Japanese, it is possible to see the frequent use of role language in Japanese translation than in Korean original text which is not observable in Korean translation of Japanese literatures. This research begins with examining if it is possible to see the same tendency in the Korean and Japanese translations of English literatures. I use J. K. Rawling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as an example and compare and contrast the translation of speech styles in its Japanese and Korean versions. As existing literatures point out, the use of role language such as ‘doctor’s language’ (hakase-go, which is a stereotyped speech style of ‘imaginary’ old male doctors/scientists), female language, and dialects is more frequently in the Japanese translation than in Korean. I then analyze how the Korean translation distinguishes the speech of each character without using role language. The result tells that, while the Korean translation contains only a small amount role language, it instead brings its readers into the story with sentence endings to indicate relationships among the characters as well as with the intentional use of translatese.