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On Translating Modern Korean Poetry
On Translating Modern Korean Poetry is a research monograph exploring the intricacies and complexities of translating modern Korean poetry. This monograph highlights the difficulties entailed in translating Korean poetry, due to the lexical, structural, social, expressive and attitudinal levels with which the translator must be engaged. Featuring all-new translations, this book explores the question of what exactly modern Korean poetry is, increases the representation of female poets and includes poems addressing modern historical events, globalization, diaspora and mental health. Each chapter provides commentary on both the original and translated texts and looks at some of the issues that arose during the translation process. By doing so the authors draw attention to the intricate, trans-cultural and trans-creational process of Korean poetry translation. Collating contemporary Korean poetry and intricately exploring the translation process, this book is ideal for researchers and advanced level students of Korean Studies, Translation Studies and Literature with an interest in translation.
Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation
This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction. This book offers an analysis of translations in Japanese and Korean of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and The Hobbit, or There and Back Again to show how the translated versions crystallise the translators’ interpretations of relationships in the way characters address one another. This book discusses fan translations of Korean and Japanese to E...
Korean Wave in World Englishes
This book examines the linguistic impact of the Korean Wave on World Englishes, demonstrating that the K-Wave is not only a phenomenon of popular culture, but also language. The "Korean Wave" is a neologism that was coined during the 1990s that includes K-pop, K-dramas, K-film, K-food, and K-beauty, and in recent years it has peaked in global popularity. This book intends to show how social media phenomena have facilitated the growth of Korea’s cultural influence globally and enabled a number of Korean origin words to settle in varieties of Englishes. This in turn has globalised Korean origin words and revolutionised the English language through an active and collaborative process of lexic...
Understanding Korean Film
Film viewing presents a unique situation in which the film viewer is unwittingly placed in the role of a multimodal translator, finding themselves entirely responsible for interpreting multifaceted meanings at the mercy of their own semiotic repertoire. Yet, researchers have made little attempt, as they have for literary texts, to explain the gap in translation when it comes to multimodality. It is no wonder then that, in an era of informed consumerism, film viewers have been trying to develop their own toolboxes for the tasks that they are faced with when viewing foreign language films by sharing information online. This is particularly the case with South Korean film, which has drawn the i...
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing
For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue. “The language learning I want to talk about is sensory bombardment. It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover,” writes Polly Barton in her eloquent treatise on this profoundly humbling and gratifying act. Shortly before graduating with a degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, Barton on a whim accepted an English-teaching position in Japan. With the characteristic ambivalence of a twenty-one-year-old whose summer—and life—stretched out almost infinitely before her, she moved to...
The Language of Hallyu
The Language of Hallyu will re-examine the language of the Korean Wave by looking at popular K-content. In doing so, it will expose the meanings that get lost in translation, hidden under subtitles. Over the past decade, hallyu (the Korean wave) has exploded in popularity around the globe. K-films, K-drama, and K-pop were once small subcultures, known mostly by Korea’s East and Southeast Asian neighbours and Korean diaspora. Now, K-content has entered the international mainstream. Consequently, interest in Korean language has grown, while interest in language learning in general has decreased. Many textbooks emphasise that Korean is a ‘polite’ language, but this book will highlight tha...
The Age of Doubt
The Age of Doubt collects some of Pak Kyongni's most famous works, including her 1955 debut and other stories featuring characters that would appear in her 21-volume epic, Toji. Many of Pak's stories reflect her own turbulent experiences during the period following the Korean war and the various South Korean dictatorships throughout the twentieth century.
Missionary Translators
Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and Christian theological works, it looks at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies and history. This book discusses the real-life challenges faced by missionary translators in producing Christian texts in East Asian languages. Students, historians, scholars and those interested in the study of East Asian cultures or translation will find this book to be an insightful and invaluable resource.
Pohjois-Korea ei koskaan pyydä anteeksi
Pohjoiskorealaisen sotilaan tositarina on jännittävä kuin vakoojatrilleri. Vuonna 1996 Etelä-Korean rannikolla ajoi karille vakoilemassa ollut pohjoiskorealainen sukellusvene. Miehistö yritti tuhota veneen, mutta räjähdys epäonnistui ja miehistön oli noustava maihin. Alkoi jahti, johon osallistui 40 000 Etelä-Korean sotilasta. Vain yksi sukellusveneen miehistön jäsen, perämies Lee, jäi henkiin. Kirja kertoo hänen uskomattoman tarinansa. Kun hollantilainen journalisti Jeroen Visser kuuli sukellusveneen ja perämiehen tapauksesta, hän päätti selvittää Leen kohtaloa tarkemmin. Selvisi, että Lee ei joutunutkaan vankilaan vaan hän loikkasi Etelä-Korean armeijan palvelukseen...
Ik zeg geen vaarwel
Romanschrijver Gyeong-ha reist op verzoek van haar vriendin In-seon – die door een ongeluk in het ziekenhuis terecht is gekomen – naar Jeju-eiland om zich over haar vogel te ontfermen die alleen thuis is achtergebleven. Het eiland, van 1948 tot 1954 het schouwtoneel van een burgeropstand die tienduizenden het leven kostte, wordt op dat moment geteisterd door een zware sneeuwstorm. Als Gyeong-ha eindelijk aankomt bij het huis van In-seon wordt zij geconfronteerd met het pijnlijke verleden van haar familie. De oom van In-seon wordt sinds het bloedbad vermist en haar moeder, Jeong-sim, wijdt sindsdien haar leven aan het terugvinden van haar vermiste broer. Ze reist het hele land door en weigert te accepteren dat ze haar broer wellicht nooit meer zal zien. Een roman over de bloederige opstand op Jeju-eiland, over de reis van dood naar leven, over veerkracht en pijn maar vooral ook over onvoorwaardelijke liefde en het besef dat liefde noch rouw ooit zullen eindigen.
