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TRANSLATORS AS MEDIATOR: CULTURAL NEGOTIATION IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT INTO INDONESIAN Nadia Khumairo Ma'shumah; Aulia Addinillah Arum; Arif Nur Syamsi
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021
Publisher : Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (32.768 KB) | DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4418

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This study explores the translation of cultural-specific terms in the literary text as the translation process connects cultural differences between the source and target languages. Using Eco's notion of "translation as negotiation"; Bassnett's "translators as a mediator of cultures", and Newmark's cultural categorizations of terms as the framework and this qualitative study analyzed two Indonesian versions of the novel The Secret Garden by Francess Hodgson Burnett (1911). The first translated version was published in 2010 under the title "Taman Rahasia", whereas the second translated version was published in 2020 under the same title as the original version. This study has shown the complexity in closing the cultural gap between the source text and target text. As the impact, both translators used different forms of negotiation to accommodate readers' expectations and to functionally create optimal target texts in the target culture, which differentiate into five categories (i.e., ecological, material culture; social culture, social, politic, and administrative organizations; and gestures and habits).
PROPOSITION-BASED EVALUATION OF MACHINE-TRANSLATED ACADEMIC TEXT Aulia Addinillah Arum; B.R. Suryo Baskoro
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 6, No 1: June 2022
Publisher : Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/ll.v6i1.4678

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This study aims to describe the rendition of propositional meaning in machine-translated academic text. A proposition is that part of the meaning of a clause or sentence that is constant, despite changes in such things as the voice or illocutionary force of the clause. A proposition may be related to other units of its kind through interpropositional relations, such as temporal relations and logical relations. To assess whether the meaning of an utterance is conveyed adequately in the target text, we conducted the proposition-based evaluation by looking at the grammatical structure, semantic roles, and the category of proposition reflected in the source text and the target text. The analysis is done by adopting the qualitative approach based on Larson’s theory of Meaning-Based Translation. The findings of this study suggest that identical grammatical structure can have a positive correlation to the semantic structure and the transfer of meaning in machine translation. This study also reveals that grammatical-structure similarity does not always indicate meaning accuracy in translation.