『Steve Jobs』평전의 무생물주어 타동사 구문 영한번역 양상 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss how English inanimate subjects - transitive verb sentences are translated into Korean. Actually, inanimate subjects frequently appear in English sentences, while hardly appearing in Korean sentences. In comparison with English, Korean is usually influenced by animacy constraint so strongly and the human subject tends to be preferred to the inanimate subject. For the purpose of this study, 150 English inanimate subjects – transitive sentences were selected from the critical biography ‘Steve Jobs’ along with the counterpart sentences from its translated version in Korean.

This paper is to help develop the techniques of translating English sentences with an inanimate subject followed by a transitive verb into Korean. As the result of the analysis, inanimate subjects such as a country, a group, and an organization remain as a subject in Korean and less prototypical transitive clauses tend to be translated as transitive clauses with the same inanimate subjects, whereas more prototypical transitive clauses tend to be translated as intransitive clauses with new subjects as the previous studies. Most of the other clauses also showed the similar syntactic changes as we already know. However, there were a few clauses that shows the difference from the former studies on English – Korean translation based on the animacy of a subject.