Tłumaczenie koreańskich form adresatywnych stosowanych w środowisku zawodowym na języki polski i niemiecki w podpisach seriali południowokoreańskich – analiza trudności tłumaczeniowych na styku kultur i języków

Abstrakt

In audiovisual translation, discrepancies between the cultural and linguistic systems of the source and target contexts frequently give rise to substantial translation challenges, particularly where a significant cultural–linguistic distance exists. One domain in which such challenges become especially salient is the rendering of address forms, which are deeply embedded in social norms and hierarchies. Although South Korea, Poland, and Germany can be characterised as societies structured by hierarchical relations, they differ considerably in both the degree of social stratification and the linguistic resources employed to encode hierarchical distinctions.

This article examines the translation of Korean address forms into Polish and German, with a particular focus on occupational titles used in everyday professional interaction in South Korea. The empirical material consists of selected character utterances and their corresponding subtitle translations, drawn from eight South Korean television series.