법률 전문용어의 한영 번역전략에 관한 연구 – 지식재산 법률용어를 중심으로

When translating legal texts from one legal system to another, not only the understanding of source language and target language but also legal factors beyond the linguistic level must be considered in the translation process. Therefore, the analysis of translation strategies based on the differences of languages and legal systems is a meaningful study in legal translation. In this study, the translation strategies applied to the translation of legal terms in the intellectual property law are analysed for the Korean-English dictionary of intellectual property by the Korea Legislation Research Institute as a parallel corpus of Korean and English. There are various translation strategies between source language and target language, which are located at the two extremes of general translation strategies. In the translation of legal terms in the intellectual property law, there are also specific translation strategies for legal translation. The analysis of the translation strategies in this study is based on such strategies as (1) functional equivalents, (2) borrowings, (3) literal equivalents, (4) transposition, (5) expansion, (6) modulation and (7) descriptive paraphrasing. As a result of analysis of the translation strategies for the corpus presented above, the strategy of literal equivalents occupies an overwhelming proportion of all the translation strategies, followed by descriptive paraphrasing. This shows that the translation of legal terms in the intellectual property law is oriented to formal equivalence. Therefore, the translation strategies of legal terms analysed in this study can be used not only as a guideline in the translation process of legal terms in the intellectual property law, but also as a useful tool for analysis for the result of the legal translation.