EXPERIENTIAL FUNCTIONAL IN MEDICAL TEXTBOOK AND ITS INDONESIAN TRANSLATION.

'translation is defined as the activity of human in transferring a set of information or
message- verbal nnd non-verbal- from source infom1ation into target jnfonnation.
Translation is not an easy prot;eSs because in doing tTflns!~io

, th~re

~re

~om.e

rules that must be obeyed by translator. At least .the translator must master the SL
because every language ha.s its own system. Every language has its own grammatical
or structural system in conveying an jdea. The trnnslator must be nhle to trnnsfcr t.he
struct ure of SL to the (lpproprialt:. structurt": nf Tl S•.J, the
r~

'J: ult

of t mn~J

a tine

bt'=
r~n

understood by the listener or the reader. FlnJay in Simatupang (1999:20) stats

"ideaJiy, the translation should give the sense of the original in such a way that the
render i ~ unnwnrc that slhe js.rending .a transJation''.
Furthermore. Nida .and Taber (1974:4) state 'anything that r-an be said .in
on

~

language can be said in anotht.'T, unless the form .is an essential d ement of thes1:::
message; the best translation does not sound like translation'. lt means that the
tmn!'il,ntnr must effort the rcmJers of tmn.o;,lntion do not re:1lize tha1 s/he is reading a

translation.
Nowadays, there are many books written m foreign languages have been
translated jnto Jndone.sinn . The lxl

Where changes of proces~

require.. t1le tmnc;lntor should cbange the

process.
The. translator should translate only r.devant words in the SL by which the

meaning can be codt:>d 1n the TL

3. The finding." of this .r~each
the

ren~

__

can he used to .fulfill a better understanding for

of the t\vo textbooks.

4. It ;$ suggested for othe·r rPseach~.:

~ to .make .a

function found in textbooks.

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detaiJe.d analysis of experiential

_,

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