The Equivalence Problems in the Translation of “Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia”

Chandra K. Wiharja, Alex Jhon

2018

Abstract

Translating a text from one language to another can never be identical in meaning andoften creates problem. This paper aims to find out the equivalence translation problem in the translation process of “Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia” from English to Bahasa Indonesia. In order to confirm the problem, researchers have analysed the equivalence within target text and the source text specifically in the word and grammatical by defining the possible literal or conceptual definitions. The results indicate that from five aspects of the text analysed, only one aspect proved to be equivalently translated. However if they are observed from conceptual point of view, all of the aspects are proved equivalent. These findings suggest that further research should consider on the same texts translated by the different translators.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wiharja C. and Jhon A. (2018). The Equivalence Problems in the Translation of “Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 452-456. DOI: 10.5220/0010010300002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Chandra K. Wiharja and Alex Jhon},
title={The Equivalence Problems in the Translation of “Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia”},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={452-456},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010010300002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - The Equivalence Problems in the Translation of “Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia”
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Wiharja C.
AU - Jhon A.
PY - 2018
SP - 452
EP - 456
DO - 10.5220/0010010300002917