An Analysis of Translation Meyhods Used in English-Indonesian Translation of “The Real Princess” by Hans Christian Andersen

Abstract

There was so much research about Newmark’s (1988) Translation Methods in a short story, yet none of them was conducted at the University of Islam Malang. This research was the analysis of translation methods in the short story “The Real Princess” by Hans Christian Andersen translated from English to Indonesian by the participants of the research. The participants were selected from the translation II class of the 6th semester of the English Education Department of UNISMA using typical sampling of purposive sampling by questionnaire and interview. The researcher expected that there were some variations of translation methods used by the participants to translate the short story into the target language. The data were collected from 4 participants' translation documentation with the A score from the translation I class and having some experience in translating. There were 22 sentences from the short story and a total of 88 data to be analyzed by the researcher. The analysis process was based on Newmark’s translation methods theory with qualitative descriptive methods that includes document analysis. As the results of the research, the researcher discovered 6 translation methods used by the participants to translate the short story. These translation methods were faithful, literal, communicative, semantic, free, adaptation. Faithful translation was the most used translation method among the 6 discovered translation methods. The translation method was mostly used by the participants to keep the contextual meaning of the source language with the restriction of the target language grammatical structure in the short story “The Real Princess” by Hans Christian Andersen. Keywords: Translation, Translation Methods, Short Story, Newmark