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TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES USED IN THE TRANSLATION OF THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN DONE BY DHARMASISWA STUDENTS OF STIBA SARASWATI DENPASAR
Author(s) -
Ni Made Verayanti Utami,
Putu Devi Maharani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sphota : jurnal linguistik dan sastra/sphota : jurnal linguistik dan sastra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2580-7358
pISSN - 2085-8388
DOI - 10.36733/sphota.v11i2.1193
Subject(s) - indonesian , literal translation , narrative , computer science , linguistics , translation (biology) , reading (process) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , source text , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , gene
The differences in two linguistic and cultural systems have made obstacles in translation. Thus, this research is aimed at analysing the translation technique used by the student in translating the narrative text. The data focused on the translation of The Tale of Tom Kitten from English to Indonesian done by ten students of BIPA (Indonesian for non-native speaker) Dharmasiswa at STIBA Saraswati Denpasar. The method of collecting the data in this research was direct observation method. It observed directly through the translation of the fable. There were two techniques used in collecting the data. The first was reading the English version of The Tale of Tom Kitten and the Indonesian translation done by the students. The second technique was choosing the sentences that represent the use of translation techniques in translating the narrative text. The data collected were analysed through descriptive qualitative method. The data analysed were the results of the research. The translation strategies used to translate the narrative text were analysed. The techniques of analyzing the data followed three steps. First, the data represented the translation strategies use in translation was noted. Then, it was analyzed the type of the translations techniques used to translate the sentences from English into Indonesian. The result found that there were four types of techniques used by the students to translate The Tale of Tom Kitten. They are literal technique, establish equivalent technique, reduction technique, and amplification technique.