从语言学角度试析『越南亡国史』在启蒙期韩国的译介

Abstract

The Fall of Vietnam was one of the most influential work in the Enlightening Period of Korea. When translating it, Ju Si Gyeong and Lee Sang Ik used Hangel, while Hyeon Chae used both Hangel and Chinese. Many studies pointed out that what Ju and Lee translated was not the original text of The Fall of Vietnam, but the version translated by Hyeon Chae. Based on those former studies, this thesis finds more evidences to affirm the conclusion mentioned above by taking a comparative analysis between The Fall of Vietnam and its translations from the linguistics’ point of view. Moreover, this thesis believes that besides sorting out the relations among its translations, studies on The Fall of Vietnam should also focus on the reasons why many translators chose to deal with Hyeon Chae’s version, instead of the original text. First of all, Hyeon Chae’s version had evoked a strong response in Korea at that time for meeting the needs of both the upper-class and the common people — by using Chinese in his translation and writing in a Korean word order respectively. Secondly, both literal translation and free translation were used by Hyeon Chae, and the latter one was especially used in dealing with those difficult sentences in the work. And considering the polysemy of some one-syllable words, he translated them to two-syllable Chinese words, which was helpful for the readers to understand the meaning of the word. In addition, Hyeon Chae’s version was basically written in Korean word order. So one of the advantages of choosing to translate it was that what the other translator needed to do was just transforming the Chinese parts into Hangel, which would save a lot of time.