Transitivity Analysis of the Translation of Student Translators

DOI

10.2991/icla-18.2019.99How to use a DOI?

Keywords

SFL; student translators; transitivity elements; history text.

Abstract

This paper aims at finding out the structure of transitivity elements used in the translation of student translators through which typical characteristics of Indonesian history text would be obtained. This is a qualitative study taking the English history text entitled ‘Early History of Yellowstone National Park’ and the text translated by 15 student translators as the data. The student translators are the second grade students of Master’s Degree Program of Linguistics Department majoring translation studies at the University of Sumatera Utara in the 2017/2018 academic year. Translog was used as the instrument for data collection. The data were analyzed using a content analysis. The results of data analysis indicate that the student translators’ TTs used 6 out of 8 types of processes, and material process is the most-used type of process. In terms of circumstances, 8 types of circumstances are used in the student translators’ TTs, and a circumstance of place is the most-used circumstance. It is concluded that these findings would become the prototype of characteristics of Indonesian history text.

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© 2019, 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  - Rusdi Noor Rosa
AU  - Rudy Sofyan
AU  - Bahagia Tarigan
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Transitivity Analysis of the Translation of Student Translators
BT  - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 612
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icla-18.2019.99
DO  - 10.2991/icla-18.2019.99
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