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In the Korean language, onomatopoeia makes up a significant proportion of the lexicon and is actively employed by writers as an important expressive tool in literature. Pak Wan-sŏ, one of the most widely-read fiction writers in post-war Korea, is recognized for her distinctively idiomatic narrative voice, in which onomatopoeia plays a major part. This article examines how Pak’s use of onomatopoeia is reflected and rendered in English translation, through a close, empirical analysis of four respective English versions of four different short stories by Pak. The examination found that all four translations chose to omit or paraphrase a majority of the onomatopoeic words in the original. However, the results also found a number of cases where the translators attempted creative translation strategies to reflect the onomatopoeia, the most notable of which was substituting the onomatopoeia with lyrical mechanisms. This discovery underlines an effective strategy for translating onomatopoeia from Korean into English, thereby rendering the rich and unique authorial voice in the target language.

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1. 서론: 문학 속 의성어·의태어의 한영번역
2. 배경: 의성어·의태어 및 박완서 소설 번역 연구 현황
2.1. 의성어·의태어의 번역 연구
2.2. 박완서 소설 번역 연구
3. 분석 대상 텍스트 및 기준
3.1. 분석 대상
3.2. 분석 기준
4. 분석 결과
4.1. 코퍼스 분석
4.2. 번역의 양상, 번역의 가능성
5. 결론: 의성어·의태어 번역의 가능성
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• 정하연 [ Jung, Ha-yun | 이화여자대학교 통역번역대학원 ]

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