Accuracy Translation Quality Assessment

redemption. The story tells about the two Afghan young boys namely Amir and Hassan. Both of Amir and Hassan are motherless and they live in the same household but grow up in the different worlds. Amir is the son of a wealthy merchant, while Hassan is the son of Amir‘s father‘s servant namely Ali. They spend all their time together to do their favorite activities such as climbing the poplar trees, watching the movies at Cinema, and playing the kites in a yearly Afghanistan‘s kite tournament. However, there is a great secret between Amir and Hassan. It makes their life full of lies from the people who they love. The secret is not yet revealed until one moment where Amir has to leave Hassan and his past life. The Russian‘s Invasion forces Amir and his father to leave their homeland and their house that is occupied by Ali and Hassan. They escape to America where Amir successfully achieves his dream as a novelist and gets married with Soraya the sister of General Taheri. Baba , Amir‘s father still chooses to keep the secret and hides it from Amir until his death is coming. In short, the secret is revealed after Amir suddenly received a phone call fr om Baba‘s old friend Rahim Khan. He calls Amir from Pakistan and explains about the secret that is hidden by Amir‘s father for a long time. He tell s about the latest condition of Kabul and Hassan‘s life. The most shocking news is heard by Amir when Rahim Khan tells about the death of Hassan and the truth of Hassan. He says that Hassan is the son of Baba and Amir‘s brother. Amir does not accept this fact and he feels disappointed by his father and his close friend Rahim Khan. He blames himself because he never asks his father about his relation with Hassan. In the end of the story, Rahim Khan asks Amir to find and rescue Hassan‘s lost son named Sohrab. Finally, Amir and Soraya adopt Sohrab as their child and take him to stay with them in America.

B. Conceptual Framework

This research aims to analyze the types of CSIs in forms of words and phrases, the translation techniques used by the translator, the ideological tendency of the translator in translating the CSIs, and the accuracy, acceptability, and readability of the CSIs translation found in Berliani‘s The Kite Runner . The techniques are investigated in order to reveal the ideological tendency of the translator in translating the CSIs found in Hosseini‘s The Kite Runner into its Indonesian version Berliani‘s The Kite Runner. Furthermore, this study follows some scholars‘ theories related to the objectives of this research. Firstly, in order to classify or collect the data, Newmark‘s classification of CSIs is applied. Newmark 1988 classifies CSIs into five categories: 1 Ecology; 2 Material Culture; 3 Social Culture; 4 Organization, Customs, Activities, Procedures, and Concepts; and 5 Gestures and Habits. Secondly, Davies‘ suggestion related to technique in translating the CSIs is applied. They are preservation, addition, omission, globalisation, localisation, transformation, and creation. The techniques are divided into two groups under the frame of foreignisation and domestication ideology. Foreignisation ideolgy consists of two techninques namely preservation and