simply how your masterpiece is easily comprehends ” 2001:1. From the
definitions above it is clear that a text is considered as readable if the reader does not get confused when they read the text.
According to Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv, discourse marker is a
words or phrases that is used to direct or redirect the flow of conversations and has no particular grammatical function and syntactically independent.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
There are two related studies done by other researchers on similar topic. The first study is related to the translation of discourse markers done by Winda
Adeputri Djohar 2012 entitled “The Equivalence and The Acceptability of The Translation of Discourse Markers in John Boyne‟s The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas ”. In this study, Djohar explains about five out of ten functions of
discourse markers as stated by Andreas H. Jucker in his book Discourse Markers: Descriptions and Theory
. Those functions are discourse marker as discourse connector, turn-takers, confirmation-seekers, intimacy-signals, topic-switchers,
hesitation markersfillers, prompters, repair markers, attitude markers, and hedging devices. However, in this study, Djohar only chooses the first five
functions of discourse marker as her focus. She also gives an analysis of the data found in the translation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The analysis does not
come only from Djohar herself, but also from other people as the correspondents of her questionnaires to assess the equivalence and acceptability of the translation
of discourse markers as her focus on her study. The second study is conducted by Aluysia Vicka Tunjung Sari 2013
entitled “The Domesticated Translation of the Terms Related to “Tools” in Toer‟s This Earth of Mankind
: A Study of Accuracy and Readability”. In this study, Sari focuses on the domesticated translation of
the terms related to “tools” in the
