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Han Kang’s novel Human Acts adopts seven different points of view from seven persons who know Dong-ho, the protagonist, or ‘the boy’ in the novel. Each chapter is narrated by one of these seven persons, and the novel does not readily reveal their identities. This particular type of narration requires the Korean reader to actively engage in ‘motivation search’ to downgrade the ‘informativity’ of the characters. This novel deals with a historical event that is at the fore of the Korean people's consciousness, and that is the Gwangju Uprising. This event is far less well known to English readers. This unique narrative style and the knowledge gap about the Gwangju Uprising between Korean and English readers make the translator’s role even more important. This paper explores the strategies used by the English translator, Deborah Smith, to reduce the informativity for English readers. It reveals that the translator actively attempted to facilitate the reader’s forward downgrading of the informativity by changing chapter titles, inserting subtitles, and presenting information in advance. In order to relieve the reader’s outward search effort, the translator provided an introduction, added detailed information, and domesticated some information that is key to conveying the theme of the novel. She even eliminated the need for motivation search by deleting some information on minor characters, plots, and background information, and in the process, the translator lowered the overall informativity of the novel enough for the English reader to easily understand and enjoy the novel.

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Abstract 
 I. 들어가는 말
 II. 이론적 배경
  1. 정보성(informativity) 이론
  2. 소설 『소년이 온다』의 정보성 구조
 III. 분석 결과
  1. 전향탐색 노력 해소
  2. 후향탐색 노력 해소
  3. 외향탐색 노력 해소
  4. 동기탐색 필요성 제거
  5. 문제점
 IV. 결론
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저자

• 이지민 [ Lee, Jimin | 계명대학교 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  통역과 번역 [Interpretation and Translation]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1229-6074

• 수록기간

  1999~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 717 DDC 400