Faithful translation in novel ‘City of Fallen Angels’

Abstract

Background: Many young people now are starting to like reading novels. On this occasion, this research will discuss the translation of novels from English to Indonesian. Novel is a long prose narrative that deals with human life. In this research, the authors focus on faithful translation found in English novels and translated into indonesian. Focused on analyzing how faithful translation is applied by translators in translating novels using Newmark's theory. Purpose: This research aims to determine faithful translation in the novel City of Fallen Angels In the English-Indonesia Version. Design and methods: The method of this research was a descriptive method, using a quantitative approach. The researcher read the novel in both English and Indonesian as part of the data collection process, and then examined the faithful translation. Results: The results obtained from this research indicate that there are thirty data which are of the faithful translation type. Faithful translation based on these findings it can be concluded that translators maintain grammatical and lexical degrees when translating cultural terms. The translator tries to communicate in the target language according to the story events that occur. The faithful translation method emphasizes the source language, it means trying to produce the contextual meaning of the source language but still with the grammatical structure of the target text.

Do Self-translating Poets Have Equally Distributed Equivalent Words in the Target and Original Texts? A Corpus Examination of Yu Guangzhong’s Poems

“…In light of this, one may question whether Yu Guangzhong achieves equivalence when translating the original poetry into the self-translated version. Translation transfers linguistic entities from one language to their equivalents in another (Haerani, 2023). However, equivalence in translation encompasses not only formal or structural equivalence but also semantic and pragmatic equivalence, which is in line with Al-Musawi ( 2014), who states that the primary purpose of translation is to linguistically, semantically, and pragmatically convey the accurate meaning of a word or sentence.…”

“…Thus, a translator aiming for a faithful translation is to communicate the precise intended meaning of the original text effectively. To some extent, the significance of meaning outweighs the importance of structure (Haerani, 2023). Therefore, whether Yu Guangzhong achieves the equivalence between the original poem and the translation can be based on more than just the equivalence of high-frequency vocabulary between the Chinese and English translations.…”