Strategi Penerjemahan Istilah-Istilah Budaya Politik dalam Buku Teks Civic Culture dan Terjemahannya Budaya Politik

Abstract

Translation is a process of transferring a message or meaning of source language to another one. Translation is a replacement of message or meaning of source language with another language in terms of lexicon, grammatical structure, communication situation and cultural context. To replace a message or meaning, however, is necessary to understand translation strategies so that a translation work will be equivalent, easily readable and acceptable in another language. The study aims to analyze and describe translation strategies of political-culture terms from English to Indonesian in textbook Civic Cultureand its translation Budaya Politik. It used a descriptive-qualitative approach. The data included politic-culture terms while data source covered two textbooks: Civic Culture and Budaya Politik. The data collection technique was a content analysis, in-depth interview and questionnaires. The data validity employed a data or source triangulation. The data were analyzed with an interactive model: data reduction, data display, and verification/conclusion. Referring to the data analysis, the translation strategies used for translating the political-culture terms include 1) translation by cultural substitution, 2) translation by cultural substitution and loanword with spelling change, 3) translation by loanword with spelling change, 4) translation by loanword with spelling change and cultural substitution, and 5) translation by loanword without spelling change.Translation a political culture-term frequently causes a problem of equivalency, readability, and acceptability. It is due to the non-equivalency of it in Indonesian as a target language. It is recommended that the translator employ some translation strategies which should greatly help preserve and keep Indonesian existence.