Translation and Semantic Issues (A Translation Study of the Metaphor Text)
- DOI
- 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.86How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- : translation, technique, cognitive semantics, speech text
- Abstract
The translation process is concerned about transferring or rendering a text from source language into target language. The process involves not only the language but also regards to semantic aspects referred to by the source language that is translated by translator and read by reader. Our paper studies the process of translation and semantic issues, particularly the translation of metaphors on the translation product translated by two different translators. The translated source text is speech text. From this research, we looked at the issues faced by the translators when working on the translation of metaphor from the speech text. The translators have problems to find the appropriate equivalents in order to make the reader easy to understand the translated text.. The results showed that at first, the semantic issues discussed in here are about meaning of the words in the speech text. However, the results showed that the issues of semantics, particularly about metaphor in the speech text, are not only a mere different meaning of the words, but also concerns context, knowledge, and patterns of thought that is different between the author of the speech text and the both translators.
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- © 2018, 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 - Endang Purwaningsih AU - Djatmika Djatmika AU - M.R. Nababan AU - Agus Hari Wibowo PY - 2018/08 DA - 2018/08 TI - Translation and Semantic Issues (A Translation Study of the Metaphor Text) BT - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 467 EP - 475 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.86 DO - 10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.86 ID - Purwaningsih2018/08 ER -