The impact of source text trimming in Indonesian-English translation of academic manuscripts
- DOI
- 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.150How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- acceptability, accuracy, manuscript, naturalness, trimming
- Abstract
Academic manuscripts in Indonesian often contain specious features like circumlocutory patterns, non-compliance with the standard of text formatting, and misuse of appropriate linguistic elements. Such issues may cause the translation of the manuscripts as Source Texts to result in writings in English as Target Texts that fail to meet certain requirements of international publication. To facilitate Indonesian-English rendering for qualified Target Texts it is necessary to initially treat the Source Texts through a trimming process, that is a process of making the Source Texts tidier to make them physically prepared for inter-lingual rendering. This paper aims to explain the ways in which source texts are trimmed prior to their translation to English. Ten manuscripts are analyzed and trimmed for effective language uses.Then, the trimmed texts along with their originals are rendered to English employing google translate. The data for this research are linguistic elements found in both translations. Comparison between the translation of the trimmed texts and their originals found that the quality (including accuracy, readability, and naturalness) of the former is higher than the latter. In other words, trimming makes the Source Texts more ready for rendering so that it improves the translation quality of the academic manuscripts.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yan Mujiyanto PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - The impact of source text trimming in Indonesian-English translation of academic manuscripts BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 973 EP - 983 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.150 DO - 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.150 ID - Mujiyanto2019/08 ER -