Construction of “Objectivity” in Translated Pikiran Rakyat News Report

Thematic Structures Analysis in Covid-19 Topic

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10.2991/assehr.k.210427.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Newspaper, objectivity, online media, thematic structures, translation

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the patterns of Thematic structures and types of translation shifts signified in Pikiran Rakyat Newspaper. This paper used a qualitative method to find the differences of the objectivity between the source text and target text in terms of thematic and translation shifts that appear in news report. From the findings, it is found that 31% of the clauses from the source text were shifted in the target text, which means the other 69% were remain unbiased. It means that 31% shifts were coming from the category shifts (structures, unit, class, level shifts). Hence, it comes to the conclusion that the writer adopted a faithful translation method in translating the texts. So, it is believed that translators in Pikiran Rakyat tried to translate the text by transferring grammatical structure from the source text to target text, specifically by focusing on the categories in the clauses.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Indah Arti Fisilla
AU  - Syihabuddin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Construction of “Objectivity” in Translated Pikiran Rakyat News Report
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 233
EP  - 238
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.035
ID  - Fisilla2021
ER  -