Adjustment Techniques In Translating Statements Of Revolt By Commoner Women In Earth Dance

Abstract

This article discusses statements of revolt as an expression of disgust, rebel, contempt, made by commoner women towards social situations in Balinese culture presented in the novel Tarian Bumi. The novel has a Balinese culture as the setting. It discovers the struggle of commoner women, the women from the lowest caste in Balinese culture. The method of this research is a descriptive-comparative method where the statements of revolt in the source language text are compared to their equivalents in the target language text to find out what adjustments involved. How these statements of revolt are translated into English are observed by using techniques of adjustments by Nida (1964); addition, subtraction, and alteration. The analysis and discussion leads to the objectives of this research: to reveal what message contained in these statements of revolt and to identify what adjustment techniques are applied in the translation. The results show that the main message contained in the statements of revolt by commoner women are about rebel and anger towards inequality which are not to be delivered, not to be spoken to those who are concerned; and the i ii adjustment techniques cover the three of them but the alteration adjustment is used more frequently than any other adjustment techniques.

Evaluating Quality and Readability: Contrastive Analysis of Four Arabic Translations of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

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“…A translator has the right to include background information in the TT when they recognize its importance for helping target readers understand the context of unfamiliar events. Translators sometimes provide extra background information for cultural reasons, such as " to fill in a cultural gap" (Baker, 1997) (P. 288), addressing historical differences, or making implicit details more explicit (Mahmud et al, 2021) (P. 425 Additionally, having thorough background knowledge about the subject matter before translating has " a significant influence on the translation quality", as noted by Kim (Kim, 2006) (P. 328). However, this background information must be accurate and to the point because it is intended to help the target readers better understand the ST.…”

Alteration in the Translation of Indonesian Novel into English

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