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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the background of the study, reasons for choosing the
topic, statement of the problem, purposes of the study, significance and the
outline of the report.
1.1 Background of the Study
Along with the increasing of technology and science, books and articles have
been written by specialists in all fields. People need those books but not all of
them are able to understand the books, which are written in language that they
do not know. That is one reason why we need translation.
Based on Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary, translation means the
activity of translating. Translation studies are aimed at the observation of
transfer process oriented and transfer‐result‐oriented facts, and thus at creating
the preconditions for the build‐up of a linguistically and psycholinguistically
based, empirical, descriptive, and explanative frame of reference Eppert,
1982:175. For
non‐translator people, translation is only a text; for translator, translation
is an activity. Anthony Pym states 1993:131, 149‐50, translation from
“external knowledge” perspective is a text or document, but from “internal
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knowledge” perspective, translation is an activity which is aimed to produce a
text. Translating
is not easy because every language has its own rules in phonetic,
structure, and words. In translating text, sometimes the translator finds
problems of nonequivalence in the text. The translator will use certain strategies
to solve those problems. By using the strategies, the text can be more understood
by the readers from the target language. Indonesia
is a developing country that needs more science, technology, knowledge
to develop more. Rahman 1986:46 as cited by Irmawati 2003:2 states
that’ in Indonesia there has been no such a large project of translation as in
Japan.’ Yet the number of translation has risen to some extent that more Indonesian
people, especially students, gain wider knowledge. The material translated
is being extended, from science books to other subjects, including literature.
People are also interested in literary works, which are able to entertain
them. The example of the literary works is novel. If we compare the translation
of a novel from SL to TL we can find some non‐equivalence in a word, phrase or
clause. These non‐equivalences occur because a word in SL sometimes cannot be
found in TL. Therefore, the translators will use some strategies to solve the
problems of non‐equivalence.
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The explanation above becomes the motive for me to analyze the
strategies dealing with problems of non‐equivalence at word level found in
Stephenie Meyer’s novel entitled Twilight.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
