국어 교과서의 외국어 번역투에 대한 종합적 고찰 = A General Survey of Translationese in the Korean Language Textbooks

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

When a work, especially literary work, sounds foreign as a result of a word-for-word translation, we often treat it as a bad work. Of course, from the viewpoint of the L-l(target language) structure, a strict translation has many things to overcome as it breaks the intrinsic rules of L-l. However, in terms of translation instruction, such a work may serve as a correctional material, a profoundly valuable aid in learning a better translation. With the instructional purpose in mind, this paper examines some of the translation works printed in the Korean textbooks used from elementary to high school period. The result shows that English patterns appear overwhelmingly more in number, compared to those of Chinese and Japanese. Out of several areas investigated in syntactic forms, inflectional elements, prepositional phrases, etc., prepositional phrases turn out to be most easily transferred. This may come from the direct Korean translation of English or from the indirect Korean translation of English by way of the Japanese translation of English.