Loss and Gain in Translation on Bilingual Online News Text

Keywords

Loss and Gain, Translation

Abstract

This research was aimed to investigate the loss and gain in translation process based on the equivalence in bilingual online news text. The objective of the research is to find out the kinds of loss and gain that found in the news text. Descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. Ten online news articles taken from berita2bahasa.com will be used as sources of data. The data of this study are text from both Source and Target Text consists of loss and gain elements based on equivalence found in 10 bilingual news articles. The text will be identified whether Loss and Gain information found based on equivalence theory. The results showed that there are different kinds of loss and gain that found in the texts in any level, such as word, phrase, and clause level. The paper noted that the use of Loss and Gain in news text is to achieve naturalness in translation. Since the translator can make the readers misunderstood of the original content of the source text, the translator should have vast knowledge in both ST and TT to make the news text readable.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Adrian Rasyki
AU  - Sri Minda Murni
AU  - Amrin Saragih
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Loss and Gain in Translation on Bilingual Online News Text
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 732
EP  - 735
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125928455
ID  - Rasyki2019/12
ER  -