Sexual Language Translation: The Perspective of Teaching Polite English
Keywords:
teaching English translation, sexual languages, accuracy, acceptability, readability
Abstract
Students of English language can benefit their learning from translating English novels which can be found easily everywhere. Since many of those novels contain sexual languages, students need to be exposed on how to deal with taboo, vulgar and harsh languages. This research investigated how to produce a good and qualified translation of taboo, vulgar and harsh languages from English into Indonesian without creating pornography. The quality examined was its accuracy, acceptability and readability of the translation. The method applied in this research was descriptive qualitative with the strategy of an embedded case study. The source of data was a novel by Sandra Brown and its translation. The research reveals that the students and/or translators should handle taboo, vulgar and harsh languages found in sexual languages by applying generalization, modulation, euphemism, reduction and deletion as the techniques to translate such languages, so they are able to produce a translation which does not violate norms and values. Those techniques have proved to be able to produce a good quality translation.References
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Halliday, M.A.K dan Matthiessen, Christian. (2004). An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Arnold.
Lauscher, S. (2000). Translation Quality Assessment: “Where can theory and practice meet?” The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. Vol. 6, No. 2, 149-168, Manchester: St. Jerome.
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Nababan, M.R (2007). Aspek Genetik, Objektif dan Afektif dalam Penelitian Terjemahan. Linguistika, Vol. 14, No. 26
Newmark, Paul. (1981). Approaches to Translation. New York: Pergamon Press.
Nida, E. A. and. Taber, C. R. (1974). The Theory and Practice of Translation. Leiden: E.J.Brill.
Shiyab, Said and Abdullateef, Mohammad (2001). Translation and Foreign Language Teaching. J. King Saud Univ., Vo!. 13,Lang. & Trans., pp. 1- 9
Schiaffino, R. & Zearo, F. (2003). Measuring Quality in Translation. 44th ATA Conference Phoenix.
Sisko, Paul, J. (2004). Communicating Homoerotic Desire in Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray. (Unpublished thesis). Diakses dari: http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1857&context=etd
Spradley, James. (1979). The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Taghian, Muhammad Abdul-Fattah A. (2014). Translating Euphemism of Sexual Taboos in the Qur’an. Oxford: Lambert Academic Publishing.
Toury, G. (1999). A Handful of Paragraphs on 'Translation' and 'Norms'. In
C. Schäffner (Ed.) Translation and Norms (pp. 9-31). Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters.
Trent, C. J. (2009). Culture of Sex: Sexual Linguistics and Discourse of Cosmopolitan Editions in the United States, France and India. (Unpublished thesis). Diakses dari: https://www.waterstones.com/book/culture-of-sex-sexual-linguistics-and-discourse-of-cosmopolitan-editions-in-the-united-states/caroline-jamie-trent/9781249856566
Venuti, Lawrence. (1992). Introduction. In L. Venuti (Ed.) Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology (pp. 1-17). London: Routledge.
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Ziman, H. (2008). Sex Taboo in Literary Translation in China: A Study of the Two Chinese Versions of the Color Purple. Dalam Jurnal Babel 54:1 Hal.69-85. DOI: 10.1075/babel.54.1.072zim
Published
2018-06-27
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Putranti, S., Nababan, M., & Tarjana, S. (2018). Sexual Language Translation: The Perspective of Teaching Polite English. Dinamika Ilmu, 18(1), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.21093/di.v18i1.1040
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