An Analysis of Category Shift in Me Before You Novel by Jojo Moyes

This research used a qualitative approach with descriptive design in order to find the translation shifting utilized by the translator from English to Indonesia and the translation quality assessment. The data were taken from the novel entitled Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes (2012) and from In...

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Main Authors: Mutiarani Pubas, Evert H. Hilman
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Language:Arabic
Published: UPT. Pengembangan Bahasa IAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa 2022-12-01
Series:JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)
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Online Access:https://journal.iainlangsa.ac.id/index.php/jl3t/article/view/4692
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description This research used a qualitative approach with descriptive design in order to find the translation shifting utilized by the translator from English to Indonesia and the translation quality assessment. The data were taken from the novel entitled Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes (2012) and from Indonesian-translated novel by Tanti Lesmana published in 2013. Furthermore, this research used Catford’s theory and Nababan et al., with the other theories, to find out the answer in the analyzing process. Catford divided translation shift into two, level shift and category shift. There are four types of category shift; structure shift, class shift, unit shift, and intra-system shift. The result showed that there were category shift that found in the data, which consist 28 unit shifts (57%), 12 intra-system shifts (23%) and 10 class shifts (20%). Translation quality assessment in three data shows less accuracy level dan the overall data indicates high accuracy level, high acceptability level, dan high readability level. As the implication, the result of this research has provided several new insights regarding the category shift in a written work which can be such a reference for other researchers in doing the similar focus of research.
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spelling doaj-art-0b487abe73624229b3a68309b41db1202025-01-19T06:57:14ZaraUPT. Pengembangan Bahasa IAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala LangsaJL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)2477-54442580-23482022-12-018210.32505/jl3t.v8i2.4692An Analysis of Category Shift in Me Before You Novel by Jojo MoyesMutiarani Pubas0Evert H. Hilman 1English Literature, Universitas Nasional, DKI Jakarta, IndonesiaEnglish Literature, Universitas Nasional, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia This research used a qualitative approach with descriptive design in order to find the translation shifting utilized by the translator from English to Indonesia and the translation quality assessment. The data were taken from the novel entitled Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes (2012) and from Indonesian-translated novel by Tanti Lesmana published in 2013. Furthermore, this research used Catford’s theory and Nababan et al., with the other theories, to find out the answer in the analyzing process. Catford divided translation shift into two, level shift and category shift. There are four types of category shift; structure shift, class shift, unit shift, and intra-system shift. The result showed that there were category shift that found in the data, which consist 28 unit shifts (57%), 12 intra-system shifts (23%) and 10 class shifts (20%). Translation quality assessment in three data shows less accuracy level dan the overall data indicates high accuracy level, high acceptability level, dan high readability level. As the implication, the result of this research has provided several new insights regarding the category shift in a written work which can be such a reference for other researchers in doing the similar focus of research. https://journal.iainlangsa.ac.id/index.php/jl3t/article/view/4692Category ShiftClass ShiftIntra-system ShiftTranslation AssessmentUnit Shift
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An Analysis of Category Shift in Me Before You Novel by Jojo Moyes
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)
Category Shift
Class Shift
Intra-system Shift
Translation Assessment
Unit Shift
title An Analysis of Category Shift in Me Before You Novel by Jojo Moyes
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title_short An Analysis of Category Shift in Me Before You Novel by Jojo Moyes
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Class Shift
Intra-system Shift
Translation Assessment
Unit Shift
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