<성경전서 새번역>의 국어학적 연구 -마가복음을 중심으로- (A Korean Linguistic Study on Revised New Korean Standard Version)

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초록

This paper aims to investigate the Revised New Korean Standard Version (2004) in terms of Korean linguistics. The purpose of this study is to examine some of the erroneous translations found in RNKSV based on Korean linguistic aspects and lay the foundation to publish a better version, which would provide a friendly access to its text and satisfy modern readers.
First, in view of morpho-syntactic field, some forms ought to comply with honorific rules. For an example to take ‘예수’, the honorific subject case ending, ‘께서’ needs to be rewritten as ‘예수님’. The second personal pronoun, ‘당신’ has no implication of honor any more. And in accordance with the rule of humbleness, ‘나’ and ‘우리’ should be replaced with ‘저’, and ‘저희’. Furthermore, some case endings ought be changed in order to read fast and to understand well. Differences in the usage of conjunction adverbs, particles, tense, and word order must be recognized.
Secondly, in the viewpoint of semantics, Chinese characters which are difficult to decode need to be changed to easy Chinese or native vocabulary. Lexical selection requires prudence to enable modern readers to comprehend. As for quantitative expressions, some need to be replaced with the more proper forms. Words signifying ‘the disabled’ should be changed to appropriate ones such as ‘physically challenging man’ or ‘mentally challenging woman’, so that they will not evoke unpleasant feelings.
Finally, it’s very preferable in terms of orthography that punctuation marks are used in the Korean Bible for the first time. However, in some sentences the appearance of numerous commas is not desirable. And after some conjunction adverbs, the comma can’t be used. There are minimal mistakes in word spacing despite meticulous proofreading.

영어초록

This paper aims to investigate the Revised New Korean Standard Version (2004) in terms of Korean linguistics. The purpose of this study is to examine some of the erroneous translations found in RNKSV based on Korean linguistic aspects and lay the foundation to publish a better version, which would provide a friendly access to its text and satisfy modern readers.
First, in view of morpho-syntactic field, some forms ought to comply with honorific rules. For an example to take ‘예수’, the honorific subject case ending, ‘께서’ needs to be rewritten as ‘예수님’. The second personal pronoun, ‘당신’ has no implication of honor any more. And in accordance with the rule of humbleness, ‘나’ and ‘우리’ should be replaced with ‘저’, and ‘저희’. Furthermore, some case endings ought be changed in order to read fast and to understand well. Differences in the usage of conjunction adverbs, particles, tense, and word order must be recognized.
Secondly, in the viewpoint of semantics, Chinese characters which are difficult to decode need to be changed to easy Chinese or native vocabulary. Lexical selection requires prudence to enable modern readers to comprehend. As for quantitative expressions, some need to be replaced with the more proper forms. Words signifying ‘the disabled’ should be changed to appropriate ones such as ‘physically challenging man’ or ‘mentally challenging woman’, so that they will not evoke unpleasant feelings.
Finally, it’s very preferable in terms of orthography that punctuation marks are used in the Korean Bible for the first time. However, in some sentences the appearance of numerous commas is not desirable. And after some conjunction adverbs, the comma can’t be used. There are minimal mistakes in word spacing despite meticulous proofreading.

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