Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Sofyan, Rudy; Tarigan, Bahagia

doi:10.17509/ijal.v8i1.11463

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“…As historical text is a part of recount text, this finding supports Yunita's study, finding the frequent use of simple theme in recount texts [22]. However, this finding is in contrast with Sofyan and Tarigan's study whose findings show that marked theme is the theme most frequently used in Indonesian news item texts [12]. The difference is caused by the nature of news item text that frequently highlights the time and the place of the reported events.…”

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“…Considering the important role of themes in constructing a text has attracted a number of translation scholars to conduct studies on it. They focused their studies on thematic progression patterns in translation [10,11]; theme markedness in translation [12]; theme characteristics in translation [13]; application of thematic analysis to translation [14,15]; theme and rheme structure in translation [16], and theme choice [17]. The study of theme choice done by Lee is closely related to theme shift, the object studied in this paper, because the choice of theme in the TT might be different from the theme used in the ST [17].…”

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Theme Shifts in the Translation of Student and Professional Translators

Rosa¹,

Sofyan²

2019

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

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Any translation practices aim at producing a target text (TT) which is equivalent in meaning to the source text (ST) and corresponding to the style and lexicogrammar applicable in the target language (TL). One of the ways to arrive at such purpose is through shift. From the SFL point of view, shifts involve the elements of language metafunctions, one of which is shifts in textual metafunction element, i.e. theme. This study aims at analyzing the so-called theme shifts in the translation of student translators and professional translators. This study used a content analysis method taking student translators and professional translators as the participants who were asked to translate a text from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Based on the data analysis, it was found that most of theme shifts done by student translators were at the lexicogrammatical level, while professional translators did more theme shifts at the discourse level. This study concludes that student translators' theme shifts focus on the form, while professional translators focus on the meaning.

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Theme Shifts in the Translation of Student and Professional Translators

Rosa¹,

Sofyan²

2019

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

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“…The dominant use of the unmarked theme is also found in the news item text. Sofyan and Tarigan (2018) found that 66% of themes in English news item text were unmarked themes since the readers wanted to know what happened in the news.…”

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“…The essential role of theme and rheme in constructing a clause has attracted a number of researchers to conduct a study on it. Previous studies on theme and rheme have different focuses, such as theme markedness (Rosa, 2007a;Sofyan & Tarigan, 2018), thematic progression (Arunsirot, 2013;Jing, 2015;Li, 2011;Rosa, 2007b;Sofyan & Tarigan, 2017;Yunita, 2018), thematic and information structure (Anwar & Amri, 2020;Carter-Thomas, 2002;Potter, 2016). The previous studies mentioned above have tried to find out the characteristics of texts in a certain language or to improve the quality of texts from a textual metafunction point of view.…”

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“…The previous studies mentioned above have tried to find out the characteristics of texts in a certain language or to improve the quality of texts from a textual metafunction point of view. Sofyan and Tarigan (2018), for example, found the frequent use of the simple marked theme as the characteristics of Indonesian news item texts as they put more emphasis on facilitating the readers' understanding of the events presented in the text. Meanwhile, Jing (2015) and Rosa (2007b) focused on how thematic progression would improve the quality of texts.…”

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Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

Nurlela

Sofyan

Ganie

2021

SiELE

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As the first part of a narrative text, orientation should be able to attract the readers’ attention; therefore, it must be well organized. From the Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view, a well-organized text can be confirmed through its textual metafunction realized in theme and rheme. In addition to confirming a good organization of the clauses, theme-rheme interactions would make the text interesting. This paper aims at describing the thematic characteristics of the orientation of the English version of Hikayat Deli text (the translated text of Hikayat Deli). This study employed the data derived from the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text which was analyzed using content analysis. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) unmarked themes dominated the use of theme in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text, (2) the story characters (participants) were used most frequently as the clause themes, and (3) conjunctions and conjunctives (textual themes) were the elements of multiple themes most frequently used in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text. It is concluded that the choice of theme elements helps in constructing a well-organized orientation and in facilitating the easy understanding to readers of what the rest of the text is about.

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Exploring undergraduate students’ experiences in dealing with post-editing of machine translation

Harto

Hamied

Musthafa

et al. 2022

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Although post-editing of machine translation (PEMT) has been much discussed and spoken among students in higher education institutions, little empirical evidence has been reported regarding the students’ real practices in their academic life. To fill this practical gap, this article explores the students’ experiences in dealing with PEMT in a Theoretical Foundation of Translating and Interpreting (TFTI) course. This exploration elaborates practical insights into how the students initially started practicing translation through PEMT in their actual day-to-day practices. Fifty-eight English students studying in an undergraduate program in a prominent public university in Indonesia voluntarily participated in this qualitative case study. Data were collected from students’ focused-group discussion (FGD), survey questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and students’ documents and the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings showed that post-editing process provides the students with experiences in building their text knowledge to enable them to have high awareness and sensitivity to the academic texts. In addition, in PEMT practices, the students’ experiences were explored through the implementation of translation methods and techniques expected to build their awareness in PEMT with regard to language structure and language function. These experiences have given some empirical inputs for the lecturers to design relevant tasks and apply various translating practices for students’ more meaningful learning.

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Theme markedness in the translation of student translators

Cited by 11 publications

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Theme Shifts in the Translation of Student and Professional Translators

Theme Shifts in the Translation of Student and Professional Translators

Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

Exploring undergraduate students’ experiences in dealing with post-editing of machine translation

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