Grammatical Equivalence in the Indonesian Translation of Galbraith’s the Cuckoo’s Calling

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the grammatical equivalence in the Indonesian translation of Robert Galbraith’s novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. The translated version is titled Dekut Burung Kukuk, translated by Siska Yuanita. The theory used in this research is the translation theory by Baker (2018) where five grammatical categories were analyzed, namely, number, gender, person, tense and aspect, and voice. This is a qualitative study as it was conducted by analyzing the text of the books and comparing the source and target language. The results show that the Indonesian translation of ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ was mostly grammatically equivalent, meaning that all five grammatical categories appeared in the Indonesian version and were well adjusted. Some necessary changes were made due to the different natures of both languages and to improve the translation quality and clarity.

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“…Notably, much of the research on translation equivalence has focused on how translators achieve equivalence between the original and translated texts and the translation strategies that enable this (Bibiraykhon, 2023;Li et al, 2022;Septarani, 2022). Furthermore, studies have also examined the equivalence of specific components within the translated text, including grammatical equivalence, stylistic equivalence, and equivalence of idioms (Kanasya & Bram, 2023;Özdemir, 2019;Satti & Ali, 2022). Limited research has been undertaken to assess the equivalents between the complete source text and its translated counterpart, specifically from a corpus-based standpoint (Farahani & Kazemian, 2021;Pastor, 2021;Rebechi & Tagnin, 2020).…”