Functional and Descriptive Equivalents in The Land of Five Towers

Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud

2018

Abstract

The major thing to do in any translation activities is to find the closest natural equivalent of words in the source text. Unfortunately not all equivalents are available in a dictionary. When no direct equivalent found, some translation procedures need to be implemented so the readers of the target language could understand what messages are being delivered through a translation. Translators have to be creative in getting the equivalent needed either by replacing the meaning with its function as in functional equivalent, or by giving a description as in descriptive equivalents. The data source of this paper is The Land of Five Towers, a translated novel of Negeri Lima Menara, written by A. Fuadi. It is about the life in Pesantren and the cultural background of its main characters. As this research deals with two texts, source text and target text, the method used for this research is comparative method. What phenomena found in the target text relating to the use of these two equivalents are then described based on the theories in Translation Studies. How the translator makes use of these equivalents and what information revealed in the target text become the aims of this research.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mahmud E. (2018). Functional and Descriptive Equivalents in The Land of Five Towers. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 287-295. DOI: 10.5220/0008217000002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud},
title={Functional and Descriptive Equivalents in The Land of Five Towers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={287-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008217000002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - Functional and Descriptive Equivalents in The Land of Five Towers
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Mahmud E.
PY - 2018
SP - 287
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0008217000002284