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ENGLISH AND INDONESIANLEXICAL EQUIVALENCE IN

TRANSLATING STEPHANIE MEYERS

NOVEL MIDNIGHT SUN

BY : RAPIKI AFRINA SIRAITNPM : 0902050353


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CHAPTER 1A. Background of The Study

- translation is one of the complicatedaspects that entangles all languages

devices

- the translators strategy in translatingplays an important role in transferring

the meaning from SL into TL

- the notion of equivalence is

undeniable one of the most problematic

and controversial areas in the field of

translation theory.

- sense of curiosity and interest of the


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B. Identification of The

Problem1. Analyzing the strategies in presenting

lexical equivalents applied in

translation result of Stephanie

Meyers novel Midnight Sun.2. finding out the most dominant

concept of strategy in presenting

lexical equivalents applied intranslation result of Stephanie

Meyers novel Midnight Sun.


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C. Scope and Limitation

The study will be limited on the lexicalequivalent that occurs in Indonesian

translation result , not discussing

about another equivalents such as :grammar equivalents and so forth.

The number of chapters in Midnight

Sunare 12 chapters, and the writerwill only analyze 6 chapters of it

because of certain consideration.


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D. Formulation of The Study

1. What are the strategies that used inpresenting lexical equivalent in

Indonesian translation result of novel

Midnight Sun?2. What is the dominant concept of

strategy in presenting lexical

equivalents applied in translationresult of novel Midnight Sun ?


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E. The Objective of The study

The objective of the study is to find outthe

English and Indonesian lexical

equivalence intranslating Stephanie Meyer's novel

"Midnight Sunby classifying them into

several strategies and concepts of

presenting


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F. The Significance of The

Study1. It will give accurate information to the

readers around the field of translation.

2. The research can help the people whoare interested in translating word or thatbeing motivated to be the translators touse the right strategies in translatingEnglish (SL) into Indonesian (TL).

3. The research hopefully is useful as thereference for other researchers who willanalyze the English and Indonesianlexical equivalents with different title of

novel.


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CHAPTER III

METHOD OF RESEARCH

A. Research DesignThis study will employ qualitative descriptivemethod .

B. Source of DataThe source of the data is an English novel

Midnight Sun(2008) by Stephanie Meyerand its Indonesian translation with the sametitle by Alan Koesumah . The original novel

consists of 12 chapters and 264 pages whileits translation in target text consists of 12chapters and 270 pages, and the data thatwill be analyzed is 6 chapters in English

version with 139 pages and 6 chapters inIndonesian version with 138 a es.


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C. Analytical Framework

By doing this study, the writer will useLarsons theory of strategies in

presenting the lexical equivalent as

the analytical framework.


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D. Technique of Collecting Data

In collecting the data, written method isused. The data are sentences that

contain of lexical items which are

translated idiomatically or unilaterallyin target language.


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E. Technique of Analyzing Data

1. The writer will study the dialogue and find the

content of the story by reading the novelcarefully.

2. After knowing the meaning intended in thedialogue, the writer will compare the lexical

items of written dialogue then decided whether

those lexical items are translated literally or

idiomatically.

3. The writer will verify those lexical items in the

bilingual dictionary compiled by John M. Echolsand Hassan Shadil , then find an ossible


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4. The writer also will analyze the lexical

equivalents of its translated dialogue. The

writer will look up Indonesian dictionary toknow the possible meaning that can be arisen

from the lexical items used in the translated

dialogue.

5. The writer will classify the strategies

6. The lexical equivalents of the shared (known)

and unshared (unknown) lexical items in the

dialogue are presented using their ownstrategies

7. Those strategies are presented in

abbreviation

8. the writer will count the frequency of the use

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