TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES OF EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS USED IN THE SUBTITLE OF THE PRINCESS SWITCH MOVIE

Arwinda Dwi Anindityastuti, Achmad Basari

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Abstract: The research of this research is to find out the types of expressive speech acts, and the types of translation techniques, also to find out the most used translation technique of utterances in the subtitle of the movie. In analyzing the expressive speech act, the researchers used the theory by John Searle. Then, the translation techniques are analyzed using the theory by Molina and Albir (2002). The researchers used a descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data is English and the target language is Indonesian in the form of utterances. The result of the analysis found 107 utterances that contain expressive speech acts. The results of this research that there ten types of expressive speech acts that found in the utterance of the movie are compliment, protest, apologizing, thanking, greeting, complain, deplore, boast, welcome, and congratulating. The result of this research also found nine types of translation techniques used in translating the utterances that contain expressive speech acts. The types of translation techniques found in this research are established equivalent, literal, reduction, borrowing, discursive creation, linguistic compression, compensation, linguistic amplification, and particularization. The researchers used the theory by Molina and albir in translating the utterances that contain expressive speech acts. From the data analysis, the researchers found the most translation techniques to translate expressive speech acts used in the subtitle in The Princess Switch movie with 65.43% represented 70 data is established equivalent technique. Established equivalent technique is used to translate the utterances from the source language using a familiar term or words into the target language. The structural forms of the source language are completely familiar to the target language of the movie.

Keywords: expressive speech act, subtitle, the princess switch movie, translation techniques, utterances


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