2015, Vol.16, No.5

The Journal of Translation Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.49

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

The purpose of this study is to identify which educational expectancy norms influence the publication practice in Korea, when books for children and adolescents are translated. To this end, the concept of ‘expectancy norms’ by Chesterman was adopted to specify the ‘educational expectancy norms’ influencing the translation of children and adolescent literature. Also, the educational expectancy norms, widely-shared in Korea, were presented through the analysis of the deliberation and censorship system; the public discourse of specialists; and the selection criteria of book recommending institutes. The analysis result shows that ‘educational expectancy norms’ that external subjects have, who intervene the translation publication process of children and adolescent literature, can be categorized into five: a) importing a national and social identity; b) expanding cognitive area; c)　developing affective area; d) securing readability; and e) considering aesthetic impression. Also, interviews were conducted with related personnel to find out whether these ‘educational expectancy norms’ actually influenced the translation publication process at the sites of publishers. As a result, it was confirmed, to some extent, that the decisions made by most Korean publishers of children and adolescent books were not very different from the social ideologies, awareness, conventional wisdoms of the Korean society; and that the five ‘educational expectancy norms’, which represent the grown-ups' educational views regarding children and adolescent literature, influenced the overall, selecting, planning, translating, and editing processes of literary works.

This study proposes how the free indirect discourse (FID) of a foreign language can be translated into Korean FID in a literary text. The key point of FID translation is to reproduce multiple voices of the narrator and the character(s) in the passage of the source text without dissevering or homogenizing them. The polyphonic ambiguity of the FID in the original should be maintained in the translation. However, it is often the case that FID is translated through such methods as direct discourse, indirect discourse, free direct discourse, or narration. In the process, the mixed voices of the narrator and character(s) are divided or simplified. In this study, we investigate the reasons why Korean translators cannot easily translate FID and propose how, for example, French FID can be translated into Korean using the linguistic indices of FID. Émile Zola’s novel, Assommoir, and its Korean translations are presented as illustrations of this process.

The purpose of this study is to compare the translation concept in Korea, China and Japan, which has been represented under the terms of Beonyeok(飜譯), Fanyi(翻譯), Honyaku(翻譯) respectively. To this end, this study, first, traces the etymology of the terms and attempts to lay out a metaphoric analysis of the etymological meaning. Secondly, a broad range of terms that represent the translation concept in the three languages are identified and changing aspects of relevant terms are described in this study. Finally, this study discusses how the notion of nation state has intervened in establishing the translation concept in theses three languages. Despite the fact that the three countries commonly use the Chinese characters, share the same origin in conceptualizing translation, and are translation-related each other, the translation study that has flowed in from the west since the mid 20th century has developed in these countries at a different pace, in a different manner. Therefore, this reflective research about the conceptualization of translation in these countries would set the stage for the development of the translation studies in Northeast Asia based on the translation tradition of these countries.