Jurnal Ide Bahasa
Vol 5 No 2 (2023): JURNAL IDEBAHASA Vol. 5 No. 2 Desember 2023

An Analysis of Figurative Language and Its Translation in Avenged Sevenfold’s Song Lyrics

Lukman, Syarif Lukman (Unknown)
Hilman, Evert Haryanto (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Jan 2024

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to achieve a perfect translation so the translated text effortlessly understood through the reader. The object of this research is selected songs from Avenged Sevenfold’s song lyrics. This research focus on 4 types of figurative language which are idioms, personification, metaphor and hyperbole. This research belongs to the area of analysis of the source text and the translated text, which covers a study on annotated translation using introspective and retrospective methods, since the aim of this research is to get a perfect translation the researcher used translation quality theory from Nababan, Nuraeni & Sumardiono (2012), also this research used translation strategies by Chesterman’s (2016) theory and also the other support theories which only focused on semantic and syntactic strategies to analysed the translation strategies of figurative language in selected song lyrics. The result of this research found that trope change is most common semantic strategy used when analysed the data, while scheme change is the most frequent syntactic strategy used in these song lyrics.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Idebahasa

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Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal of Ide Bahasa (e-ISSN 2685-0559 and p-ISSN 2684-673X) is published twice a year, June and December. Each issue will be published at least 5 articles. Jurnal of Ide Bahasa focuses on language, literature, and language learning with various dimensions of languages all over the world. The ...