The Study of Book Titles’ for Korean-Chinese Translation Methods Cui, Hai-Man․Han, Yong-Su The title of a book is a sophisticated element. A book titles’ translation determines whether the book will be noticed by the readers of the target language or not.There are a lot of Korean books have been published in Chinese. If a Korean book wants to be noticed by Chinese readers, it should have a good translated title. This paper provides Skopos theory, a new guiding theory to the study of book title translation. For the purpose of analysis, the translation methods are categorized into five groups: maintenance, paraphrasing, adding, deleting and shifting. How to use the five methods is very important. When it comes to translating a title, we need to choose the best methods from these five. First, we can think about maintenance; if that does not work, we can think about paraphrasing, then adding or deleting. If we can not find a good translation, then we have to think about shifting the book's title. Second, Translators are expected to choose the best translation method to reflect the meaning of the Korean books and attract Chinese readers. Third, The role of the publisher of the translated text is very important too. If we want to make a good translation of a book's title, the publisher needs to collaborate with the translator. This paper aims to provide a valuable case study for the Korean book's titles into Chinese translation studies and to serve as a stepping stone for Korean into Chinese translating practices. It seeks to enhance the cultural communication bettwen Korean and Chinese people.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.