PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education)
Vol 5, No 6 (2022): VOLUME 5 NUMBER 6, NOVEMBER 2022

TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD NOVEL

Muhamad Gilang Abdumaula (Universitas Nasional)
Evert H. Hilman (Universitas Nasional)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Nov 2022

Abstract

This study investigates the translation methods used to translate figurative languages in the novel from English to Indonesian and the translation quality assessment. The main theory used to help find the answers in the process of analyzing are Newmark and Nababan et al., along with other supporting theories. Qualitative descriptive and focus group discussion are used as a research method. The results showed that the most frequent translation method is literal translation (51.47%), free translation (23.53%), idiomatic translation (18.38%), and word-for-word translation (6.62%). In terms of translation quality assessment, overall data implies high accuracy level, high acceptability level, and high readability level. Keywords:  Figurative Language, Translation Method, Translation Quality Assessment

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project

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Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Focus PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) is a media for diseminating the result of research about language and education in English Education. Scope PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) publishes the research article in language, and education in English Education. ...