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    This document discusses various aspects of translation including: 1. It defines translation as an intellectual art that requires creativity in transferring meaning from one language to another. 2. It explains key translation terms such as source language, target language, and provides an example of translating the word "cat" from English to Indonesia. 3. It outlines the basic process of translation as preparing text, discovering meaning, determining meaning, and re-expressing in the target language.

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    This document discusses various aspects of translation including: 1. It defines translation as an intellectual art that requires creativity in transferring meaning from one language to another. 2. It explains key translation terms such as source language, target language, and provides an example of translating the word "cat" from English to Indonesia. 3. It outlines the basic process of translation as preparing text, discovering meaning, determining meaning, and re-expressing in the target language.

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    This document discusses various aspects of translation including: 1. It defines translation as an intellectual art that requires creativity in transferring meaning from one language to another. 2. It explains key translation terms such as source language, target language, and provides an example of translating the word "cat" from English to Indonesia. 3. It outlines the basic process of translation as preparing text, discovering meaning, determining meaning, and re-expressing in the target language.

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    This document discusses various aspects of translation including: 1. It defines translation as an intellectual art that requires creativity in transferring meaning from one language to another. 2. It explains key translation terms such as source language, target language, and provides an example of translating the word "cat" from English to Indonesia. 3. It outlines the basic process of translation as preparing text, discovering meaning, determining meaning, and re-expressing in the target language.

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    Group members:

    - Anita Kusuma (18IGS12341)


    - Ayu Rina (18IGS12343)
    - Novia Lestari (18IGS12346)
    - Eka Irmayanti (18IGS12363)
    - Dian Cahyani (18IGS12365)

    1. Translation is an art of intellectual thinking


    Translation is an art because when a translator transfer meaning from one language to
    another, s/he needs to be creative and artistic in choosing words to meet the accuracy,
    acceptability, and readability. Meanwhile, a translator should have intellectual
    thinking because translator needs an ability to present the same sense in the source
    language into target language. And both of this process will never be replaced by any
    translation machines or program.
    2. The best way to define source and target language
    Source language is the form from which language the translation is made, and target
    language is the form into which language it is to be changed.
    For example we want to translate the word “cat” from English to Indonesia. Then, the
    word “cat” from English become the source language, and the final result in Indonesia
    which is “kucing” become the target language.

    Source Language (English) Target Language (Indonesia)


    Cat Kucing

    3. The process of translation :


    a) prepare the text to be translated
    b) we need to discover the meaning of the text(source language)
    c) we need to determine the meaning
    d) we need to re-express the meaning in target language.
    e) the translation is done
    4. Lost of information: the information of the SL is not transferred into the TL.
    Addition of information: there’s an addition of extra information to the TL.
    Skewing of information: the translation item from the SL is not the exact equivalence
    in the TL.
    5. Definition of translation by:
    o Nida: “producing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the
    message of the source language, first in terms of meaning and secondly in
    terms of style.” 
    o Larson: “translation consists of transferring the meaning of the source
    language into the receptor language. Only the form changes.”
    6. Concept of equivalent
    Based on the essential meaning of “equivalent”, the process of translating is widely
    known as the activity of finding equivalent. Specifically, equivalent in translation
    activity is to meet the equality in meaning and importance. By “meaning” it means
    that the idea and the message are compatible while “importance” relates to the impact
    of the translation product.
    7. Formal equivalence focuses on the message where form and meaning become the key
    aspect of translation. Meanwhile, dynamic equivalence focuses on the principle of
    seeking the same effect on the target reader.
    8. Shift deals with different forms or some changes that may represent similar meaning
    in both source and target language.
    Example:

    Source Language (English) Target Language (Indonesia)


    Trousers Celana panjang
    In this example is unit shift. In SL it is just a word “trousers”, meanwhile the form
    changed into phrase in the TL and become “celana panjang”.
    9. Shift Classification:
    o Structure shift is a changing of words sequence in a sentence.
    o Class shift is related to the change of word classes or part of speech in
    translation.
    o Unit shift is the change of rank, which is a departure from formal
    correspondence in which the translation equivalent of a unit at one rank in the
    source language is a unit at a different rank in the target language.
    o Intra system shift is a shift that demonstrates the fact that language in the
    world have their own specific cases that sometimes affect translation tasks.
    Usually related to singular and plural form.
    10. Categories of translation:
    Larson
    o Literal translation, that considered a form-based translation that shows the
    effort to follow the form of the source language.
    o Idiomatic translator, that utilizes the natural form of the receptor language,
    both in the grammatical construction and in the choice of lexical items.
    Bassnet
    o Intraligual translation (rewording), refers to an interpretation of verbal signs
    by means of other signs taking place in the same language
    o Interlingual translation (translation proper), interpretation of verbal signs by
    means of some other language
    o Intersemiotic translation (transmusition), an interpretation of verbal signs by
    means of signs of nonverbal sign system.
    Margono
    o Morpheme by morpheme translation, used for linguistic analysis.
    o Word by word translation, when the English version as the source language is
    literally transferred into Indonesian that is positioned as the target language.
    o Sentence by sentence translation, occur when there is a thought of how an
    expression in the form of a sentence is naturally translated.
    o Contextual translation, leads to natural expression and version of the target
    language.

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