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The Structures of Titles in children’s literature: Linguistic Considerations with Diachronic Aspects

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1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structures of titles in children’s literature between ST and TT. This research suggests that there are five common and three distinctive characteristics (called principles and variations respectively in this paper) out of 1924 titles of ST and TT: (1) both ST and TT have more Phrasal form titles than the Sentential form, (2) NP structures among Phrasal form titles appear the most, (3) NP2 appear more than NP1 in both ST and TT, (4) full-sentence CP titles among CP forms are the most, and (5) a tendency to be translated into similar structures from ST to TT are detected. Meanwhile (i) TT-CP appears at a higher rate than ST-CP, (ii) ST-NP1 appears a higher rate than TT-NP1, and (iii) ST-NP1 forms are translated more into TT-NP2 than TT-NP1 unlike the result (5). The data are limited to English-Korean translated children's books; structural analysis is only conducted. However, the analysis method of this paper would be applicable to the other literatures. Considering this point, researches on non-translated books, multilingual translation books, or other genres are hoped to be carried out in the subsequent studies.

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