English � Indonesian Translation Methods in the Short Story �a Blunder� by Anton Chekhov

Abstract

This study contains analysis of translation method in the short story "A Blunder" by Anton Chekhov which is translated into Indonesian by students as the participants of this research. In translation analysis processes, the researcher used theory of translation method based on Newmark Theory. While to find out the equivalence in the translation, the researcher used Baker Theory. The researcher thought that there are a lot of variations methods appear in the results of translation, so he wants to know the kinds of equivalence translation used by the participants to make the target language (TL) more comprehensible. Qualitative descriptive method that includes observation and document analysis was used in this research. Here, the result of document analysis were consulted to the translation and literature expertise to check the result of the analysis. As the conclusion, the researcher finds 6 methods used by the participants to render the short story "A Blunder" into the target language (TL). Besides, the researcher finds two kinds of translation equivalence in the translations.

Translation Method Used in Lang Leav's Poetries Translated by M. Aan Mansyur

“…Based on the poetries that the researcher analyzed, it was sound that there were 8 translation methods used by the translator in translating the poetries. They are described in this Aan Mansyur is related to the previous study by Nugraha (2017) in his research which is meant to find out the translation methods applied in the short story "A Blunder" by Anton Chekhov says that adaptation is the most suitable method to be used to translate the short story.…”

Translation Analysis of Racist Stereotypes by Students in Peterns Russel’s Standup Comedy Entitled Louis Vuitton

“…That means beside linguistics a translator requires other competence such as knowledge in culture and history of source language in order to make an equivalence translation works. The translation works which are conducted by three students are considered as an equivalence translation as it suggested by Baker in Nugraha et all [8]. Translation equivalence on students' translation works in translating racist stereotype can be seen in the first line.…”

“…The writer expects the result of this research show translation equivalence on students' translation work in translating racist stereotype that appear in the standup comedy conducted by Peters Russell entitled Louis Vuitton. According to Baker in Nugraha et all [8] distinguished translation equivalence into three kinds of equivalence namely grammatical equivalence, textual equivalence, and pragmatic equivalence. Research on the translation of racist words or slurs especially on racist stereotype have not been conducted before.…”

Strategies Used in Translating the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Novel into Indonesian

“…To date, there have been a large quantity of studies concerning translation strategies utilized in novels. Some of these studies investigated the translation strategies used in translating novels in general (Ndruru, 2017;Nugraha et al, 2017;Warhamni, 2010). On the other hand, other studies specifically investigated which types of strategies the translators employed in translating a multitude of idioms in various novels (Fitri et al, 2019;Sinurat et al, 2022;Wirastuti & Wedasuwari, 2019).…”