2.8 Relevant Studies
One of the studies about untranslatability has been conducted by M. Zainal Muttaqie, graduated student of Translation Studies of Magister Linguistic Study Program of Sebelas
Maret University. His thesis entitled Kajian Ketakterjemahan pada Subtitle Bahasa Indonesia DVD Film The Simpsons Movie. He analyzed linguistic and cultural
untranslatabilities. He found causation factors which made those untranslatabilities happened and found translation techniques that applied by the translator to solve the untranslatabilities.
Another study was conducted by Khristianto Puspita Purbasari, the graduated student
of Department of English, Faculty of Letters, University of Muhammadyah Purwokerto.
The thesis entitled untranslatability in Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk. The data of the research were derived from Ahmad Tohari’s Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk and its English version, The Dancer.
The data were collected by a criterion of cultural terms causing untranslatability in the translation. The data were analyzed with applying Mona Baker’s and Nida’s theory on
untranslatability. Based on the analysis, it was identified seven factors of untranslatability, those are
cultural specific concept, the source and the target languages make different distinctions in meaning, the source language word is semantically complex, the target language lacks a
specific term hyponym, social and culture issues, material culture issues and problem of ecology. To solve the problems, translator applied seven strategies, i.e. translation by a more
general word, translation by a more neutral less expressive word , translation by cultural substitution, translation using a loan word or loan words plus, translation by paraphrase using
a related word, translation by paraphrase using unrelated words, and translation by omission. The result of data is found 100 cultural terms that has problem of untranslatability.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
Hamidi 2010:4 states that a study has purpose to draw a certain meaning that hidden behind or within the object of the study then finally it will produce a scientific
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statement. The scientific statement must be true. It will belong to be true if it is based on the reality. To obtain a scientific statement which is based on the reality need to use a certain of
ways or steps that called method of research. Fathoni 2006: 98 explained, method of research or method of the study is procedure that used in doing a research. This study use
method which matched to the identified problem and purpose of the study. The scope of method involves the type of research design, source of data, data collection procedures, and
data analysis.
3.1 Research Design
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