IJOLTL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): Januari

Examining Translation Techniques in the Health Article on Benefits of Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

PUTRI KEMANGI, ORVIN GRENDI (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2023

Abstract

The types of translation techniques proposed by prominent figures support the translators to ease the process of converting source text (ST) into target text (TT). Regarding the translation process and product, this study applied Vinay and Darbelnet’s techniques (1958) to examine the translation of a medical text published on July 13 2022 in University of Missouri website. The text discusses the benefits of getting COVID-19 vaccine. The goal of choosing this article is to provide more information about the advantages of COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesian. Thus, the ST that is used in this study is English and the TT in Indonesian. This translation study used descriptive qualitative research that tends on the medical text in form of article as the data of the study. In this study, the translation process of the text involves 7 techniques of Vinay and Darbelnet including literal translation, omission, borrowing, transposition, paraphrase, explication, and modulation. The most used technique in translating the text is literal translation that focuses on the structure or forms of the text and the least used techniques are modulation and explication.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijoltl

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

IJOLTL invites original manuscripts in the fields of language, language teaching, linguistics, and applied linguistics. Although articles are written in English, the IJOLTL welcomes studies dealing with the teaching of languages other than English as well. Research on culture of various perspectives ...