Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society (한국도서관정보학회지)

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Remnants of Culture in Journal Article Titles: A Comparison between the United States and Korea in the Field of Social Sciences

논문 제목상의 문화적 흔적: 한국과 미국의 사회과학분야 비교

  • Received : 2015.01.22
  • Accepted : 2015.03.18
  • Published : 2015.03.30
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Abstract

Most academic journals in the world today typically require submission of journal article titles in English. However, most authors and reviewers are insensitive to the fact that cultural differences at a national level exist in writing titles. In this paper, journal article titles that have been published in the United States and Korea were compared in order to find cross-national cultural characteristics in these titles. To conduct this study, sample titles in the field of social sciences were obtained from two bibliographic databases-Scopus and RISS. A frequency count on number of variables was used: length of title, types of titles and n-gram phrases. In addition, a variety of similarities and differences found from this study including the type of words and phrases that Korean authors tend to favor in journal articles. The results showed that there is a considerable amount of cultural related variability in the construction of journal article titles. This study suggests that cross national characteristics of journal article titles should be emphasized in the future.

국내 대다수의 학술지는 논문 제출시 한글로 쓴 논문 제목과 함께 영어로 된 논문 제목을 제출할 것을 요구한다. 그러나 일반적으로 논문작성자나 논문 심사자들 조차도 영문 논문 제목에 큰 비중을 두지 않는다. 본 논문은 미국과 한국에서 출판된 학술지의 논문제목에서 국가간 문화적 특성과 차이를 알아보기 위한 연구이다. Scopus와 RISS 데이터베이스를 이용하여 사회과학분야와 관련된 논문제목들을 발췌하여 이 연구를 진행하였다. 연구 대상이 된 논문의 제목은 제목의 길이, 종류 및 n-gram 문구 등의 여러 유형을 사용하여 분석 및 비교하였고, 샘플 논문 제목을 분석한 결과, 한글로 작성된 학술지 논문의 제목에서는 특별히 선호되는 단어와 구문의 유형을 발견하였다. 이러한 유형들의 관습적 사용들로써 논문의 제목에서 국가간의 문화적 차이가 나타난다는 결과를 도출하였다. 이 연구는 영문 제목을 붙일 때에 국내 논문에서 보여주는 전형적인 양상을 지적하고 국가간의 문화적 차이에 대해 좀더 인식하고 염두 해야 한다는 점을 주장한다.

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