The Alchemist: Figurative Language Translation Analysis

Sastrawinata, Chairunisa Sonya

AlphabetAlphabet: A Biannual Academic Journal on Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2023)

This study investigates the translation methods and analysis of figurative language in the novel “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho from English to Indonesian. The main theory used to help find the answer in the process is Peter Newmark and Chesterman’s theory, along with other supporting journals. The research method applied is qualitative descriptive. The result showed the writer found 54 syntactic strategy (47 literal translation, 1 calque, 2 phrase structure change, 1 cohesion change, 2 sentence structure change, 1 transposition), 10 semantic strategy (10 synonymy ), and 7 pragmatic strategy (7 explicitness change).