영한번역에 나타난 영어 복수 명사의 변환 연구

Shifts of English Countable Plural Nouns into Korean Plural Noun Forms : A parallel corpus-based study with a focus on animacy

This paper is concerned with shift phenomena of English countable noun plural form into Korean plurals. Since Korean has two types of noun plural form such as ‘-tul and zero form, the translator has an option to choose either of them for English countable plural nouns. The analysis will be based on the parallel corpus of the American novel The Catcher in the Rye and its translation by Kim and Yeom (2005). This paper shows that the translation work in questions follows the pattern of Korean original text as far as animacy is concerned with the distribution of Korean plural forms. It will confirm Toury s (1995) acceptability hypothesis in translation and show that simplification works in the translation work.