2007, Vol.8, No.1

The Journal of Translation Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.49

pISSN : 1229-795X
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kats

Women's Translation Styles in Novels Kim, Dong Mie(Baekseok College of Cultural Studies) The purpose of this study is to compare translation styles between men and women and to set up a translation strategy. In order to investigate characteristics of language used in both male and female translators' works, I used the following categories: discourse and semantics. I analyzed the women's and men's styles as found in seven novels. Three of these works were written by women, the other four by men. The investigation way was to compare women's and men's conversation styles. When Korean women translate the SL conversation of British and American literary works into TL, Korean, they tend to translate SL into the standard form of the Korean language, while men tend to translate the same expression into a Korean dialect of one form or another. Women translators tend to translate the women's language of the source texts more accurately and equivalently. The existence of women's distinctive translation styles means much in the world of Korean translation, since it contributes to the forming of an important translation strategy. I suggest that the faithful and equivalent translation of the female writers' literary works should be conducted by women translators who are more keen and sensitive to women's language in the source texts.

A Multi-dimensional Approach to Translationese: From Diagnosis to Prescription Kim, Jeong-Woo(Kyungnam University) This paper aims at examining the origin and/or reason of so-called translationese expressions and suggesting the way to overcome them. The reason is discussed in three aspects: linguistic viewpoint, culture reception, and political viewpoint. This paper focused on the first viewpoint; that is, linguistic viewpoint. The translationese expressions seem to be originated from both intra and extra linguistic factors. The former factors, reflecting the psychological process of a translator, could be divided into intentional and unintentional writing style, which in turn divided in detail into unintentional half-conscious and unintentional unconscious writing style. The translationese expressions might generally be treated as something to be overcome, but some of them, in case there is nothing equivalent to the corresponding expression in target language, as something to be accepted for the richness of target language. The translationese expressions may appear in almost all aspects of language, ranging from the syntactic structure, morphological forms, prepositional phrases, and punctuation marks, and the intervention of prepositional phrases in target language has turned out to be outstanding. In this context, translators should have the courage to give up their habitual and mechanical attitude to work. Furthermore, their knowledge of the contrastive grammar of source and target language could be helpful to overcome translationese expressions.The translationese expressions in principle should be overcome in case the equivalent expressions were in target language, while they should possible received and accepted by the target language readers in case the equivalent expressions were not in target language.

The Analysis of Reduced Translation by Visual Codes in Film Subtitling Park, Yoon-Cheol(Dongguk University) Until now subtitling has usually been analyzed on context dimension. This approach has had the matters not to add the visual codes of the scene, and also most of reduced translations in subtitling have been caused by temporal and spatial restrictions. This study suggests the reduced translation by the visual codes should render the meanings and contents to target text. Viewing the previous perspectives of the reduced translation in subtitling, the reduced translation was proposed by 'politeness', 'relevance' theories in pragmatic dimension. These analyses didn't render source text messages to the fullest. The film transfers them to audience through text, sound, and screen. Therefore, with this polysemiotic characteristics, the film subtitling needs to transfer not only the contextural contents but also visual code contents. In process of the contents and meanings, the reduced translation occasionally happens in subtitling. In order to prove the reduced translation by visual codes particularly, this study has used two of the English-Korean films, 『Sweet November』 and 『Lake House』. As result of this analysis, we found that the parts of subtitle segmentations were transferred by more visual codes than contextural linguistic meanings.From this approach, we conclude that the reduced translation by visual codes can be regarded as another analysis method in subtitle translation.