Translation Strategies in Translating Idiomatic Expressions from English into Indonesian in "Enola Holmes" Movie

Abstract

This research was conducted to find and categorize the kinds of idiomatic expressions, to explain the meaning of idiomatic expressions that exist by online dictionary, and to classify the types of translation strategies in “Enola Holmes” movie from English to Indonesian. The writer uses the theory from Jennifer Seidl and McMordie to categorize the kinds of idiomatic expression because many terms that are more suitable if categorized by using this theory than other theories. To explain the meaning of the idiomatic expressions in the movie, the writer uses many references of online dictionary. While to translating the idioms, the writer uses the theory of Mona Baker (1992) about translation strategies. The data were taken from idioms found in Enola Holmes movie. There were 142 data which were analyzed qualitatively to determine what types of idioms and what types of translation strategies were employed. The result shows that idiom with adjective and noun dominated of all idiom types, phrasal verb, verbal idiom, idioms with special categories, and idiom with preposition. The translation strategies which most frequently used is translation by paraphrase, followed by using similar meaning but different form idiom, translation by omission, and using similar meaning and form idioms.