The maintenance of implicatures in the English translation of dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five Towers” (A Descriptive Qualitative Study)

ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching

Fatimah¹ 

[1] Universitas Negeri Semarang;

关键词: ranslation;    implicatures;    novel;    “negeri lima menara”;    “the land of five towers”;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.15294/elt.v3i1.4004

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This final project is about the implicatures found in the source novel entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” written by Ahmad Fuadi that are translated into English by Angie Kilbane entitled “The Land of FiveTowers”.Inunderstandingthenovel,implicatureseems hardertobeunderstoodsince implicature means something beyond what is stated; it may emerge many interpretations. Besides, the implicatures in this novel actually contain the point or message of the novel. So, it is essentially needed for the readers to understand those implicatures for understanding the novel. The objectives of this project are to describe the maintenance of implicatures in the English translation of dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five Towers” and to explain the achievement of the equivalencein meaning. This project was designed as descriptive qualitative. It means that descriptive interpretation was used for examining the data on this research so that the conclusions were based on that interpretation. The object of this project isthe utterances containing implicatures that were foundinboththeIndonesiantextasthesourcetextandEnglishtextasitstranslation. Documentation methodwasusedto collectthedatainthisresearch. Thedatawasintheformof printed text in the novel, both Indonesian and English versions. In analyzing the data, observation method was done in six steps; they were listing, identifying, classifying, tabulating, interpreting, and drawingconclusion.Thefindingsofthisprojectarefrom780utterancesthatarestatedinthese novels, 40 of them are found as utterances containing implicatures. Those utterances flout one of the maxims that Grice stated, whether it flouts maxim of quality, quantity, relevance, or manner. The percentagesofthemareasfollows:thereare11(27.5%)utterancesfloutingmaximofquality,7 (17.5%) utterances flouting maximof quantity. In addition, there are6 (15%) utterances flouting maximofrelevanceand16(40%)utterancesfloutingmaximofmanner.Moreover,forkeep maintainingtheimplicatures,theyaremostlytranslatedliterallyandthetranslatorkeepsusing some cultural and religious terminologies for keep showing the cultural and religious situation in the translatednovel.Furthermore,themeaningequivalenceis mostlyachievedsincetheoriginaland thetranslatednovelshavethesamemeaningoftheimplicatures.Byconsideringthem,itcanbe concluded that the implicatures are mostly maintained when they are translated into English because the meanings and conditions of those implicatures can be similarly understood like what are stated in the ST.

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