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A Study on the Aspect of Ellipsis and Restoration in Russian-to-Korean Literary Translation: From the Perspective of Stylistics and Translation Strategy

  • The Journal of Translation Studies
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2023, 24(1), pp.253-278
  • DOI : 10.15749/jts.2023.24.1.009
  • Publisher : The Korean Association for Translation Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Interpretation and Translation Studies
  • Received : February 21, 2023
  • Accepted : March 26, 2023
  • Published : March 31, 2023

Kang Donghee 1

1한국외국어대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the ellipsis mechanism present in the source text written in Russian and how it appears in the translated Korean literary text. The research reveals that most of the ellipsis mechanism present in the Russian source text was retained in the Korean text. However, in some cases, the Korean translated text did not follow the same ellipsis mechanism as the source text; instead, the translator included the missing sentence components. Approximately 90% of the Russian sentences that had used the ellipsis mechanism remained unchanged in the translated Korean text due to both languages being pro-drop languages. In some cases, the translator did not preserve the source text’s ellipsis mechanism; instead, they included the missing components in the translated text. Restoring components took the form of third-person subject and verb at 31% each, followed by first-person subject at 26%, object at 7%, and second-person subject at 5%. When restoring first and second-person subjects, the text revealed the author’s pragmatic intent by applying a strategy of explicitly including the omitted sentence components. Therefore, when translating, the translator needs to think about the context of the literature and consider whether to retain the ellipsis mechanism present in the source text or include the missing sentence components to preserve the pragmatic intent of the author.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.