2018, Vol.19, No.3

The Journal of Translation Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.49

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

Educational comics is a genre of comics which has educational functions of conveying knowledge and information in interesting and effective ways. By adopting the perspective of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study aims to develop types of selective appropriation as revealed in Chinese translation of educational comic books in Korean society, and to analyze its specific cases. Selective appropriation refers to a “phenomenon of transforming original or source texts (ST) by means of ommission, addition, or replacement to strengten, weaken, or beautify a particular part of narratives contained in the texts in the process of translation.” According to the results of analyzing Korean educational comic books translated into Chinese, strategies of selective appropriation were largely implemented with two purposes: 1) to maintain and succeed to collective memories of text recipient groups and 2) to provide alternative information that is more necessary from the viewpoint of text recipients. The first type of selective appropriation was materialized in a strategy of “making in-group positive and out-group negative,” while the second type included sub-strategies of “replacing source texts with medium in the in-group similar to ST contexts” and “revising them with Chinese-based data.”

The intangible cultural heritage, as opposed to the tangible cultural heritage, denies the way to be preserved in a static form. It is human civilization embodied in music, dancing, drama, craft, games, etc. According to the Cultural Heritage Protection Law, the intangible cultural heritage which is recognized by the National Cultural Heritage Committee as having extraordinary artistic, historic and academic value, shall be designated as major intangible cultural heritage. Nevertheless, the names of the cultural heritage in Korea, when introduced in treaties or websites in China, have been translated in diverse versions. In addition, the government has not confirmed a standard translation for the names of the cultural heritage in Korea. In my opinion, in order to present such heritage accurately to Chinese, and to facilitate their interest in and understanding of the korea cultural heritage, it is essential to give a unified Chinese translation of the names of the Korea cultural heritage. This paper examines the methods for the Korean-Chinese translation of the names of 130 pieces of major intangible cultural heritage in Korea. Chapter II reviews theories about the translation of culture elements that include cultural heritage. Chapter III presents and expounds the theory-guided translation methods for Korean-Chinese translation of the names of the cultural heritage with the support of pertinent cases which are divided into three types: Chinese phases, fixed wording, and the combinations of Chinese phase and fixed wording.

This paper is a study of effective Korean-Chinese Sight Translation. Sight Translation is a very important training process in consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. The Korean and Chinese languages are quite different in terms of linguistic types. When interpreting, the Korean-Chinese interpreter may make mistakes if she cannot fully understand the text due to the time limit. There are many causes for language errors, but the difference in the linguistic types is one of the main ones. In order to overcome these linguistic differences and to achieve effective Sight Translation results, this study proposes the segmentation method. The segmentation method is dividing sentences into semantic units and translating the segmented units in order. However, the segmented semantic unit must be reconfigured to match the grammar structure of the target language. Three methods were proposed as effective training methods for Korean-Chinese Sight Translation. First, in Korean, there are many sentences where the subject does not appear. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement the subject or supplement the subject and object of the sentence when interpreting into the target Chinese language. Second, segmenting one long Korean sentence into multiple Chinese sentences. Third, fully understanding the conjunctive cohesion devices at the end of the Korean sentence and transferring it to the accurate cohesive device in Chinese. When the above three methods are utilized well, it is possible to eliminate obstacles to the speed, accuracy, logic and fluency of the interpreter and thus the interpretation can be effective.