A Case study on dialogue translation in Indonesian version pride and prejudice: From perspective of conversational implicature

Unlike many articles only focus on conversational implicature in the novel Pride and Prejudice, this paper aims to find out how the translators solve the conversational implicature problems in the dialogue translation. The source of data are dialogues elected from the chapter ten in Pride and Prejudice. There were 53 utterances taken as the data. Those utterances were analyzed with cooperative principles. The results showed that there were 30 utterances flouting the maxims of cooperative principles. And the modulation translation technique was mostly used when translating these utterances. Despite the modulation translation technique, established equivalent, amplification, reduction and transposition translation techniques were also used in the translation. In addition, Spradely (2006) ethnographic interactive stages of content analysis: componential analysis and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were adopted as the research methods in this paper. In the FGD stage, there were three raters who are studying translation linguistics in Sebelas Maret University giving rates to the translation quality of these utterances in Indonesian version, including accuracy and acceptability. In this way, I hope this case study could be a reference for translators on how to choose translation techniques when doing translation. And furthermore, the future studies could do the case study from other perspectives, such as SFL or sociolinguistics.