영어 수동문에 대한 한국어와 일본어 번역문의 번역 양상 - 주어의 유생성의 차이를 중심으로 -

Abstract

In this study, we examined how passive sentences in English appear in Korean and Japanese translations, focusing on subject animacy. A commonality between Korean and Japanese translations is that passive sentences with animate subjects in English are most frequently translated into intransitive sentences with animate subjects in Korean and Japanese translations.(43.2% in Korean translations and 43.6% in Japanese translations) On the other hand, the difference between the Korean and Japanese translations is that Korean translations tended to convert passive constructions to transitive constructions more frequently. Another difference is the tendency to maintain the original subject-predicate structure in translations. there was a notable tendency for the original subject-predicate structure to be preserved in the Korean translations compared to the Japanese translations. Traditionally, Japanese was considered to have a broader range of passive constructions, but this trend was not particularly evident in the translation of English passive sentences. When English passive sentences are translated into transitive sentences, a subject was frequently changed. When passive sentences with animate subjects converted into transitive sentences, the subject of the passive sentence becomes the object of the transitive sentence, and the agent of the passive sentence becomes the subject of the transitive sentence. But in the case of passive sentences with inanimate subjects translated into transitive sentences, there are another type that the inanimate subject becomes the topic and the agent becomes the subject of the transitive sentence.