A Descriptive Analysis on the Translation Procedures in The Adventure of Tintin: Secret of The Unicorn Comic (English and Bahasa Indonesia)

Abstract

This research concern with the translation study which disscuss the application of the translation procedures in The Adventure of Tintin: Secret of The Unicorn comic in English and Bahasa Indonesia version. Those versions contain pictures and text told about the adventure of Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock to find the three parchment of Will by Sir Francis Haddock. This research investigates the changes of the SL into TL through translation procedures conducted by Vinay and Darbelnet (1995) and to find the reason why the most dominant translation procedure is used to translate the utterances in the data. This study employs qualitative research. The qualitative method is used in analyzing and describing the data in the form of utterances and translation procedures. In addition, this study is a case study which focuses and disscuss the translation procedure that used by the translator to translate The Adventure of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn comic in English and Bahasa Indonesia version. The data are collected from purposive sampling where chosen to the interesting topic. There are found 127 data of the total utterances. The findings show that there are 13 procedures used by the translator instead of calque procedure. The findings also show that there found a combination of two and three procedures that used to translate the utterances. Couplets or the combination of two procedures are found in 14 utterances. Then, triplets procedures of the combination of three procedures are found in 3 utterances. Furthermore, literal translation is the most dominant procedure that used and found 45 utterances. It is followed by transposition with 30 utterances and adaptation with 21 utterances. Moreover, this comic contains a lot of simple sentences that are easy to translate by doing literal translation or word for word translation. The translator is trying to translate by word for word and then arrange those TL word into appropriate and natural sentence structure.