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This study aims to examine how one of the core conceptual terms in Confucianism, ren (仁), is translated and semantically represented in James Legge's English translation of the Analects. To this end, a total of 59 chapters in which ren appears were extracted, and the translated vocabulary was classified and frequency analyzed, along with an in-depth semantic analysis of key passages. The analysis shows that Legge translated ren, which appears 109 times in the Analects, predominantly into the ‘virtue’ family of terms (94 times, approx. 86%), while also rendering it variously as ‘perfect virtue’, ‘benevolence’, ‘principle’, and ‘good’, depending on the context. In particular, Legge understood ren as a comprehensive virtue, but when it manifested in concrete actions such as filial piety and fraternal submission (孝悌) and loving others (愛人), he used the ‘bene-’ family of terms. When de (德) and ren co-occurred in the same sentence, he translated ren as ‘principle’ or ‘perfect virtue’ to clarify the meaning of the sentences. This translational approach demonstrates that James Legge, as a Western missionary, undertook his translation of the Analects in order to facilitate the understanding of his readers.

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Abstract
1. 서론: 제임스 레그의 『논어』 번역
2. 『논어』 번역의 배경 및 가치
3. 『논어』 번역의 구성 분석
4. 『논어』 번역 속 ‘仁’의 의미 양상
4.1 포괄적 덕목으로서의 ‘仁’
4.2 구체적 행위로서의 ‘仁’
4.3 ‘德’과 ‘仁’의 구별
5. 결론
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• 김준석 [ Kim, Jun-Seok | 제주대학교 중어중문학과 석사과정 ] 제1저자
• 정민경 [ Cheong, Min-Kyung | 제주대학교 중어중문학과 부교수 ] 교신저자

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• 간행물명

  언어학연구 [Journal of Linguistic Studies]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1226-9859

• 수록기간

  1996~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 700 DDC 400