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emotion”. In other words, male tend to portray reasons in conveying their ideas rather than emotions to show their autonomy.
5. “Women’s” Language
For women, in order to achieve their goal of promoting intimacy and feelings in translating romantic elements, Talbot argues that there are several
features that are employed by women, namely: a.
Promotion of Weakness
Talbot argues that “women use language in a distinctive way, notable for its uncertainty, powerlessness, and weakness” 2010: 36. In other words, it means
that rather than showing independence or autonomy, women tend to show the sense of weakness or powerlessness represented through their distinctive way of
using language.
b. Affective Adjectives
According to Talbot, women tend to use words to show “affective meaning to show expressive feelings, not referential meanings that refer to some
objects” 2010: 36. Lakoff elaborates that such adjectives are used “in expressing approval or admiration, many are strongly marked as feminine, such as divine,
adorable, charming, or other affective adjectives qtd. in Talbot, 2010: 36. In brief, another feature that is employed by women to represent intimacy or promote
a certain feeling is through the affective adjectives. For instance, the promotion of feelings can be seen in admiring certain things or events using affective
adjectives.
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c. The Intensifier
Related to the intensifier, it is argued by Talbot that “women tend to use language in order to strengthen the force of what a person is saying or doing
” 2010: 37. Lakoff qtd. in
Talbot 2010: 37 “It has subsequently been viewed as a boosting device like very”. She adds that there are many forms to intensify or
strengthen the force of the utterance, including the usage of “so” and “very” 2010: 37. In different words, another feature is that women tend to emphasize or
amplify certain words or phrases that lead to the promotion of feeling or intimacy in translating romantic elements.
6. “Men’s” Language
For men, it is stated by Eckert that “men usually speak directly to the
point” 2003: 188. It is elaborated by Spender that “the structure of language is more concrete and more readily traced” 1980: 148. Based on Spender‟s
elaboration, it can be concluded that the structure of men‟s language is more concrete to show that the way male expresses something is direct to the point. It
means that men tend to show the sense of power. In order for male to maintain autonomy and independence reflected
through their language use, including translating romantic elements, Spender argues
the belief that “males „come first‟ in the natural order, and this is one of the first examples of a male arguing for not just the superiority of males but that is the
superiority should be reflected in the structure of the language” 1980: 149. Spender also elaborates that “as the dominant group, males were in the position to
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encode forms which enhanced their status, to provide the justification for those forms, and to legitimate those forms” 1980: 152.
In different words, males tend to maintain their superiority through their language use. It is justified due to their position in the society as a dominant
group. Because of their dominance, it is justified that they maintain any possible means to enhance their dominance through language use.
C. Theoretical Framework
There are three theories that are contributive to this thesis. In terms of answering the formulated problems, the first one is equivalence. This theory is
used to analyze the SL and TL in Nicholas Sparks‟s A Walk to Remember. It is
because the readers from the target language would get the message from the source language. If they do not get the message in the translation, it means that the
translator‟s goal to convey the same message to the readers fails. The result of the equivalence will be the data to be considered.
The second one is readability. The translation should be easy for the readers to understand. The translator should choose the correct word so that the
message of the ST can be delivered. The result of the readability will be the data to be considered. Nida
‟s and Taber‟s basic requirements for the readable translation also important for the respondents to determine whether the translated
text of Nicholas Sparks‟s A Walk to Remember is readable or not. The third one is the theory of language and gender. There are some
theories saying that gender influences the language that people use. Women and
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